• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.233-236
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• 2002

The solution for PFC(Power Factor Correction), as a regulation in energy Policy, is becoming a hot Issue in every country because of the shortage of electrical energy. Therefore, a new improved idea for PFC problem has been introduced in this study. A lot of merits, effective cost by simple circuit, reduced PCB size, lighter than reactor in the view of weight, lower level of screen noise by leakage inductance in CTV applications, have been stated by comparing to the earlier method of using a Reactor. All test results in this statement were done by using a power device of STR-G9600 series based on the real load condition of color television. furthermore, the study shows that the test results also meets the IEC-1000-3-2 class D, which regulates the PFC when input power of a set is more than 75watts. More improved PFC in other applications hopes to be implemented by using the proposed method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.178-180
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 유럽의 디지털 라디오 전송 규격인 DRM(Digital Radio Mondiale)의 Band II 대역 전송 모드인 모드 E의 전송률 향상 기법을 제안한다. DRM 모드 E는 FM 방송과의 동시방송 등의 문제를 고려하여 100kHz 대역폭에서 186kbps의 전송률을 제공한다. 하지만, 이 전송률은 모바일TV 등 멀티미디어 서비스를 제공하기 위해서는 부족하기 때문에 전송률의 향상이 요구된다. 논문에 제안된 전송률 향상기법은 기존의 DRM 모드에 변조방식 및 부호방식을 추가하는 방식으로 최대 350kbps의 전송률 제공이 가능하며, FAC(Fast Access Channel)의 예약필드에 신규 방식에 대한 정보를 전송함으로써 기존 시스템과 호환성을 유지할 수 있다. 모의실험 결과에서, AWGN(Additive White Gaussian Noise) 채널의 비트오류율 le-4를 기준으로 223kbps의 전송을 위해서는 13dB의 SNR(Signal-to-Noise Ratio)이 요구되며, 351kbps의 전송률 제공을 위해서는 약 18dB의 SNR이 요구됨을 확인할 수 있다. 또한, 다중경로 페이딩 채널환경에서 부호율이 1/2인 경우에는 이동속도보다는 지연확산이 성능에 영향을 주지만, 부호율이 1/2 보다 크며 150Km/h이상 증가하면 오류마루가 발생함을 확인할 수 있다.

• Corrosion Science and Technology
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.35-39
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• 2008

We have been studying application of electrochemical noise (Fluctuation) analysis for localized corrosion. Foils of Zinc, Aluminum and Magnesium were used as specimens for electrochemical cell simulating localized corrosion. These specimens were dipped in sodium chloride solutions adjusted to each exponent of Hydrogen ion concentration (pH) condition of 5.5, 10, 12 respectively. Time variations of potential and current were measured in those solutions, and simultaneously the surfaces of specimens were observed using microscope with television monitor. Two types of electrochemical cells were arranged for experiments simulated localized corrosion. The fluctuations on trendy component of short-circuited potential and short-circuited current were appeared in synchronization. It was seemed that these fluctuations result from hydrogen evolution on the aluminum active site in the crevice from the microscopic observation. In the case of zinc and magnesium, fluctuations appeared on the trendy component of the corrosion potential. Two types fluctuation were detected. First one is the fluctuation varied periodically. The second one is the random fluctuation. It was seemed that these fluctuations result from generation of corrosion products and hydrogen evolution on the active site in the crevice of zinc and magnesium from the microscopic observation.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.195-196
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• 2007

Since the digital TV signal band is very wide ($54{\sim}806MHz$), the VCO used in the frequency synthesizer must also have a wide frequency tuning range. Multiple LC VCOs have been used to cover such wide frequency band. However, the chip area increases due to the increased number of integrated inductors. In this paper, a scheme is proposed to cover the full band using only one VCO. The RF VCO block designed using a 0.18um CMOS process consists of a wideband LC VCO, five divide-by-2 circuits and several buffers. The simulation results show that the designed circuit has a phase noise at 10kHz better than -87dBc/Hz throughout the signal band and consumes 10mA from a 1.8V supply.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.287-292
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• 2005

This paper presents a rational polynomial approximation method to estimate modal parameters of wind excited structures using incomplete noisy measurements of structural responses and partial measurements of wind velocities only. A stochastic model of the excitation wind force acting on the structure is estimated from partial measurements of wind velocities. Then the transfer functions of the structure are approximated as rational polynomial functions. From the poles and zeros of the estimated rational polynomial functions, the modal parameters, such as natural frequencies, damping ratios, and mode shapes are extracted. Since the frequency characteristics of wind forces acting on structures can be assumed as a smooth Gaussian process especially around the natural frequencies of the structures according to the central limit theorem (Brillinger, 1969; Yaglom, 1987), the estimated modal parameters are robust and reliable with respect to the assumed stochastic input models. To verify the proposed method, the modal parameters of a TV transmission tower excited by gust wind are estimated. Comparison study with the results of other researchers shows the efficacy of the suggested method.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39B no.11
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• pp.779-789
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• 2014

Cognitive radio (CR) technology based on geo-location database access approach and/or wideband spectrum sensing approach is absolutely vital in order to recognize available frequency bands in white spaces (WSs), and efficiently utilize shared spectrums. This paper presents a new structure for the TVWS database access protocol implementation based on Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Protocol to Access WS database (PAWS). A wideband compressive spectrum sensing (WCSS) scheme using a modulated wideband converter is also proposed for the TVWS utilization. The developed database access protocol technology which is adopted in both the TV band device (TVBD) and the TVWS database operates well in the TV frequency bands. The proposed WCSS shows a stable performance in false alarm probability irrespective of noise variance estimation error as well as provides signal detection probabilities greater than 95%. This paper also investigates Federal Communications Commision (FCC) regulatory requirements of TVWS database as well as European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) policy related to TVWS database. A standardized protocol to achieve interoperability among multiple TVBDs and TVWS databases, which is currently prepared in the IETF, is discussed.

• Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.89-114
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• 2008

Most of the extant studies on communication effects have been devoted to the typical issue, "what types of communication activities are more effective for brand awareness or brand attitudes?" However, little research has addressed another question on communication decisions, "what makes communication activities less effective?" Our study focuses on factors negatively influenced on the efficiency of communication activities, especially of Advertising. Some studies have introduced concepts closely related to our topic such as consumer confusion, brand confusion, or belief confusion. Studies on product belief confusion have found some factors misleading consumers to misunderstand the physical features of products. Studies on brand confusion have uncovered factors making consumers confused on brand names. Studies on advertising confusion have tested the effects of ad models' employed by many other firms for different products on communication efficiency. We address a new concept, Ad noises, which are any factors interfering with consumers exposed to a particular advertisement in understanding messages provided by advertisements. The objective of this study is to understand the effects of ad noises caused by ad models on brand awareness and brand attitude. There are many different types of AD noises. Particularly, we study the effects of AD noises generated from ad model selection decision. Many companies want to employ celebrities as AD models while the number of celebrities who command a high degree of public and media attention are limited. Inevitably, several firms have been adopting the same celebrities as their AD models for different products. If the same AD model is adopted for TV commercials for different products, consumers exposed to those TV commercials are likely to fail to be aware of the target brand due to interference of TV commercials, for other products, employing the same AD model. This is an ad noise caused by employing ad models who have been exposed to consumers in other advertisements, which is the first type of ad noises studied in this research. Another type of AD noises is related to the decision of AD model replacement for the same product advertising. Firms sometimes launch another TV commercial for the same products. Some firms employ the same AD model for the new TV commercial for the same product and other firms employ new AD models for the new TV commercials for the same product. The typical problem with the replacement of AD models is the possibility of interfering with consumers in understanding messages of the TV commercial due to the dissimilarity of the old and new AD models. We studied the effects of these two types of ad noises, which are the typical factors influencing on the effect of communication: (1) ad noises caused by employing ad models who have been exposed to consumers in other advertisements and (2) ad noises caused by changing ad models with different images for same products. First, we measure the negative influence of AD noises on brand awareness and attitudes, in order to provide the importance of studying AD noises. Furthermore, our study unveiled the mediating conditions(variables) which can increase or decrease the effects of ad noises on brand awareness and attitudes. We study the effects of three mediating variables for ad noises caused by employing ad models who have been exposed to consumers in other advertisements: (1) the fit between product image and AD model image, (2) similarity between AD model images in multiple TV commercials employing the same AD model, and (3) similarity between products of which TV commercial employed the same AD model. We analyze the effects of another three mediating variables for ad noises caused by changing ad models with different images for same products: (1) the fit of old and new AD models for the same product, (2) similarity between AD model images in old and new TV commercials for the same product, and (3) concept similarity between old and new TV commercials for the same product. We summarized the empirical results from a field survey as follows. The employment of ad models who have been used in advertisements for other products has negative effects on both brand awareness and attitudes. our empirical study shows that it is possible to reduce the negative effects of ad models used for other products by choosing ad models whose images are relevant to the images of target products for the advertisement, by requiring ad models of images which are different from those of ad models in other advertisements, or by choosing ad models who have been shown in advertisements for other products which are not similar to the target product. The change of ad models for the same product advertisement can positively influence on brand awareness but positively on brand attitudes. Furthermore, the effects of ad model change can be weakened or strengthened depending on the relevancy of new ad models, the similarity of previous and current ad models, and the consistency of the previous and current ad messages.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.36S no.12
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• pp.34-40
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• 1999

In conventional color television systems color edges of highly saturated color pictures are deteriorated because of bandwidth limitation of the color-difference signal. In this paper a modified hue-weighted luminance demodulation method with low noise is proposed for the edge correction. The weighting coefficients are given by ratios of the gadient of color-difference signal to the gradient of band-limited luminance signal. Proposed method is theoretically complete for the 1st order lowpassed color-difference signals and well separated luminance/chrominance signal. Noise reduction technique is also considered because of impulse noise generation in the gradient ratio processing of noisy pictures. In computer simulation with noisy pictures proposed technique gives a visual effect of the bandwidth expansion and detail improvement in highly saturated color edge area.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.1053-1056
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• 2004

Chunghwa Picture Tubes, LTD. (CPT) has developed a Novel TFT-LCD Driving Techniquel. This new technique is developed in combination with other state-of-the-art image processing solutions such as image compression / decompression, motion detection, and noise reduction. By applying the Novel Driving Technique to the high resolution TFT-LCD, it was found that the response time can be effectively reduced with a lower overall system cost by smaller frame memory requirement, lower EMI by less memory band-width. Likewise, higher display quality can also be achieved in that the unexpected noises generated by over-drive can be eliminated. The Novel TFT-LCD Driving Technique has been successfully implemented to the 30 inch WXGA (1280${\times}$768) resolution TFT LCD commercial TV module. It was found that the quality of moving picture was better improved compared with that of the conventional fast response driving method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 1999.11b
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• pp.239-242
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 8VSB수신기가 다중경로신호에 따른 성능이 나쁜 것에 대한 원인 분석과 나아가 개선책을 제시하기 위해 다중경로 신호가 디지털 지상파 TV의 수신성능에 미치는 영향에 대해 수신단의 STR(Symbol Timing Recovery)과 등화기를 중심으로 분석한다. 첫째 등화기의 성능 분석을 위해 에코의지연시간이 7.5 $\mu$sec일 때 시불변 환경에서 전산 모의 실험을 하였다. 등화기 수렴후의 에로 레벨에 따른 TOV(Threshold of Visibility) S/N(Signal to Noise)를 구해보면 호주의 실험실 측정과는 달리 0dB에서도 S/N이 26dB 정도이면 등화기는 안정적으로 수렴한다. 둘째 세그먼트 동기 복원을 세그먼트 싱크 필터(Segment Sync:+1, +1. -1, -1)를 사용했을 때 짧은 시간 지연 에코와 긴 시간 지연 에코에 대해 S 커브를 보면 짧은 시간 지연에코에서는 심볼 타이밍이 어긋났으며 긴 시간 지연 에로에서는 문제가 없이 타이밍 동기가 된다. 셋째 짧은 시간 지연 에코신호가 있을 때 세그먼트 동기 복원과 등화기를 연동한 전산 모의 실험을 하여 에코의 영향을 분석하고 FSE(Fractionally Spaced Equalizer) 등화기 사용에 따른 장점을 분석한다.