• 한국위성정보통신학회논문지
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.47-52
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• 2014

본 논문은 이미지 처리 기술을 이용한 광 카메라 통신(OCC: Optical Camera Communications) 기술을 제안한다. OCC 시스템의 구조 및 동작을 제안한다. 상용 30fps 카메라의 샘플링 동작에 의해 제한되는 데이터율을 증가시키기 위해 칼라 이미지 처리기술을 이용한 멀티칼러 전송기법을 제안한다. 멀티칼라 부호화 및 이미지 처리기반의 복호화 기법을 제안한다.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.105-110
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• 2018

Autonomous cars require the integration of multiple communication systems for driving safety. Many carmakers unveil mirrorless concept cars aiming to replace rear and sideview mirrors in vehicles with camera monitoring systems, which eliminate blind spots and reduce risk. This paper presents optical vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications for autonomous mirrorless cars. The flicker-free light emitting diode (LED) light sources, providing illumination and data transmission simultaneously, and a high speed camera are used as transmitters and a receiver in the OCC link, respectively. The rear side vehicle transmits both future action data and vehicle type data using a headlamp or daytime running light, and the front vehicle can receive OCC data from the camera that replaces side mirrors so as not to prevent accidents while driving. Experimental results showed that action and vehicle type information were sent by LED light sources successfully to the front vehicle's camera via the OCC link and proved that OCC-based V2V communications for mirrorless cars can be a viable solution to improve driving safety.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제42권1호
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• pp.8-13
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• 2017

Compare with other communication system based RF technology, Optical Camera Communication (OCC) has limitation on data rate due to the low frame rate of camera. The limitation on data rate can be solved with multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) technology; and it is the final target of all researches on OCC. The MIMO topology can be implemented easily without breaking out the architecture of image sensor. For image sensor classification, there are two architectures have been developed: rolling shutter and global shutter. The operation of two techniques is different so the performance is also different. In this paper we analyze and evaluate the performance of the MIMO architecture for OCC.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제41권4호
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• pp.454-460
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• 2016

광학 카메라 통신(OCC, Optical Camera Communication)은 기존의 광다이오드 기반 가시광통신(VLC)과는 다르게 카메라를 수신부로 사용하여 데이터를 수신한다. 특히, 카메라의 CMOS 이미지 센서의 셔터 동작방식인 롤링셔터의 원리를 이용하면 픽셀별로 다른 신호를 수신할 수 있으므로 데이터 속도를 개선할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 카메라의 CMOS 이미지 센서를 사용하여 LED로부터 송신되는 고속 데이터의 이미지를 실시간으로 획득하고 이를 처리할 수 있는 알고리즘을 제안하였으며, 실험을 통해 성능을 검증하였다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제40권2호
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• pp.380-384
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• 2015

As an extension of Visible Light Communication, Optical Camera Communications (OCC) will be a promising service for smart devices. Especially in line of sight marketing service and indoor localization application, by using camera which exists in smart devices, small amount of data (url link) can be broadcasted or find direction from the illumination system. This paper introduces the operation of wireless communications technology that transmits optical information from optical light source to camera, called Optical Camera Communications.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.94-102
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• 2015

Optical camera communication (OCC) is an extension of Visible Light Communication. Different from traditional visible light communication, optical camera communications is an almost no additional cost technology by taking the advantage of build-in camera in devices. It was became a candidate for communication protocol for IoT. Camera module can be easy attached to IoT device, because it is small and flexible. Furthermore almost smartphone equip one or two camera for both back and font side with high quality and resolution. It can be utilized for receiving the data from LED or positioning. Actually, OCC combines illumination and communication. It can supply communication for special areas or environment where do not allow Radio frequency such as hospital, airplane etc. There are many concept and experiment be proposed. In this paper we proposed utilizing Android smart-phone camera for receiver and introduce new approach in modulation scheme for LED at transmitter. It also show how Manchester coding can be used encode bits while at the same time being successfully decoded by Android smart-phone camera. We introduce new data frame format for easy decoded and can be achieve high bit rate. This format can be easy to adapt to performance limit of Android operator or embedded system.

• 한국위성정보통신학회논문지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.21-25
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 이기종 통신 기반의 스마트 조명의 선택적 알고리즘을 제안한다. 스마트 조명은 조명의 역할뿐만 아니라 통신의 역할을 동시에 수행한다. 이기종 통신을 이용한 스마트 조명의 BER 성능을 높이기 위해, Line-of-Sight(LOS)/Non-LOS 채널에서 스마트 조명과 센서와의 거리, 조명사용시간, 사용자 요구를 위한 낮은 전력소모량에 따라 Optical Camera Communication(OCC), Wi-Fi, BLE 중 적합한 통신방식을 선택하도록 하였다. 그리하여 LOS/NLOS 채널에서 제안된 알고리즘의 성능과 기존의 방식과의 시뮬레이션 결과 비교를 통해 성능 향상을 확인하였다.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제2권5호
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• pp.422-430
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• 2018

Rolling shutter operation of CMOS cameras can be utilized in optical camera communications in order to transmit data from an LED to mobile devices such as smart-phones. From temporally modulated light, a spatial flicker pattern is obtained in the captured image, and this is used for signal recovery. Due to the degradation of rolling shutter images caused by light smear, motion blur, and focus blur, the conventional decoding schemes for rolling shutter cameras based on the pattern width for 'OFF' and 'ON' cannot guarantee robust communications performance for practical uses. Aside from conventional techniques, such as polynomial fitting, histogram equalization can be used for blurry light mitigation, but it requires additional computation abilities resulting in burdens on mobile devices. This paper proposes a transition-based decoding scheme for rolling shutter cameras in order to offer simple and robust data decoding in the presence of image degradation. Based on the designed synchronization pulse and modulated data symbols according to the LED dimming level, the decoding process is conducted by observing the transition patterns of two sequential symbol pulses. For this, the extended symbol pulse caused by consecutive symbol pulses with the same level determines whether the second pulse should be included for the next bit decoding or not. The proposed method simply identifies the transition patterns of sequential symbol pulses other than the pattern width of 'OFF' and 'ON' for data decoding, and thus, it is simpler and more accurate. Experimental results ensured that the transition-based decoding scheme is robust even in the presence of blurry lights in the captured image at various dimming levels

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.71-76
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• 2018

The technology convergence of television, communication, and computing devices enables the rich social and entertaining experience through Smart TV in personal living space. The powerful smart TV computing platform allows to provide various user interaction interfaces like IR remote control, web based control, body gesture based control, etc. The presently used smart TV interaction user control methods are not efficient and user-friendly to access different type of media content and services and strongly required advanced way to control and access to the smart TV with easy user interface. This paper propose the optical wireless communication (OWC) based remote controller design for Smart TV using smart device Flashlights. In this approach, the user smart device act as a remote controller with touch based interactive smart device application and transfer the user control interface data to smart TV trough Flashlight using visible light communication method. The smart TV built-in camera follows the optical camera communication (OCC) principle to decode data and control smart TV user access functions according. This proposed method is not harmful as radio frequency (RF) radiation does it on human health and very simple to use as well user does need to any gesture moves to control the smart TV.

• 정보와 통신
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• 제33권10호
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• pp.10-16
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• 2016

IEEE 802.15.7 VLC(Visible Light Communication) 규격 이후에 카메라 기반 ISC(Image Sensor Communication) 관련 개정 필요성이 제기되어서 현재 IEEE 802.15.7m OWC(Optical Wireless Communication) TG가 표준화를 진행 중에 있다. 2016년 5월에 결정된 Baseline Document D0를 기반으로 LiFi(Light Fidelity), OCC(Optical Camera Communication) 및 LED-ID(LED Identification) 기술로 간단하게 분류하고 각 핵심 변조 기법을 소개한다. 5세대 이동통신과 함께 사용될 수 있는 다양한 IoT/ M2M 응용 서비스(LED, 디지털사이니지, 방송, 자동차 안전, 디스플레이 등)들이 포함되어 있다. 국내에서 혁신적인 비즈니스 모델 발굴과 국내 산/학/연/관이 협력하여 가시광, 적외선 및 자외선 분야에서 적극적인 연구개발이 있어야 할 것이다.