• Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.315-321
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• 2017

This paper is a study on the design and realization of Pedestrian navigation service system for the visually impaired. As it is an user interface considering visually impaired, voice recognition functioned smartphone was used as the input tool and the Osteoacusis headset, which can vocally guide directions while recognizing the surrounding environment sound, was used as the output tool. Unlike the pre-existing pedestrian navigation smartphone apps, the developed system guides walking direction by the scale of the left and right stereo sound of the headset wearing, and the voice guidance about the forked or curved path is given several meters before according to the speed of the user, and the user is immediately warned of walking opposite direction or proceeding off the path. The system can acquire stable and reliable directional information using the motion tracker with the dynamic heading accuracy of 1.5 degrees. In order to overcome GPS position error, we proposed a robust trajectory planning algorithm for position error. Experimental results for the developed system show that the average directional angle error is 6.82 degrees (standard deviation: 5.98) in the experimental path, which can be stated that it stably navigated the user relatively.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.357-360
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• 2002

Nowadays, the improvement and development of Multi-media, information and communication technology are rapidly processed. And many products, for example, digital camera, digital camcorder, and PDA, are used for them. They need large data storage capacity and small size, light storage system. Due to that, many studies and researches in data storage system have been carried out. Especially, micro drive system was presented by IBM.(1) However, its system is expensive and uneasy to be portable. In ODD technologies, 1 inch drive system is not yet or in processing status.(2) If to be possible and to be come up, it is cheap than HDD system and easy to transfer information. In this paper, a miniaturized actuator(about linch) is designed and tested for ODD system. Specially, it is adapted for NFR(Near-field Recoding) system using SIL(Solid Immersion Lens). It is the dual-servo actuator which consists of a coarse actuator and fine actuator. Its actuating force generation method is VCM(Voice Ceil Motor). The fine actuator has 4-wire suspensions and bobbin wrapped by coil and includes focusing motion as well as tracking motion. The coarse actuator has an actuating coil and V-grooved guide mechanism. Also, the characteristics of the designed actuator is estimated by sine-swept mode and LDV(Laser Doppler Vibro-meter).

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.233-240
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• 2023

Nutrition information about food is written on the label paper, which is very inconvenient for visually impaired people to recognize. In order to solve the inconvenience of visually impaired people with nutritional information recognition, this paper proposes a product nutrition information guide system for visually impaired people. In the proposed system, user's image data input through UI, and object recognition is carried out through YOLO v5. The proposed system is a system that provides voice guidance on the names and nutrition information of recognized products. This paper constructs a new dataset that augments the 319 classes of canned/late-night snack product image data using rotate matrix techniques, pepper noise, and salt noise techniques. The proposed system compared and analyzed the performance of YOLO v5n, YOLO v5m, and YOLO v5l models through hyperparameter tuning and learned the dataset built with YOLO v5n models. This paper compares and analyzes the performance of the proposed system with that of previous studies.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.75-82
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• 2010

At this time, our country's social welfare system for the handicapped is switching to increase independence, education is the most important. This study increases the quality of Visual handicapped people's life which have limit to learn and reduces their inconvenience which may occur during their independent school life through the development of the system which helps them safely to reach their destination by themselves using IT technologies in an educational institute which helps their ability to get information and be independent. This study supports Visual handicapped people to move safely by using cell phone which is necessary items for most modern people, RFID tags and white canes with antenna and reader which read the information installed in the raised blocks outside of school buildings and in the hall or aisle inside of buildings and inform the path by voice and vibration.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.02a
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• pp.216-221
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• 2007

디지털 방송은 수많은 프로그램과 기존의 아날로그 방송에서 볼 수 없었던 다양한 서비스를 제공하며 발전하고 있다. 하지만 시청자들에게는 방송 서비스 채널과 기능이 많아질수록 원하는 채널을 검색하고 전환하는 과정이 어렵고 복잡한 일이 되어 버릴 수 밖에 없을 것이다. 이에 본 논문에서는 이러한 정보 획득과정의 축소를 위해 전통적인 리모콘으로 채널을 검색하고 이동하는 절차를 벗어나 음성인식을 통한 동적 EPG(Electronic Program Guide) 제어 시스템을 설계하고 구현하고자 한다. 이는 EPG정보와 시청자의 TV시청 성향 및 History를 기반으로 구동되는 시스템으로 음성대화의 구조적 정의가 가능한 VXML(VoiceXML) 인터프리터를 활용한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 대화형 인터페이스는 다양한 디지털방송 서비스에 접목이 가능 할 것이며, 새로운 형태의 디지털 가전기기 파일럿 인터페이스 개발에 도움이 될 것이라 기대한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Disaster Information Conference
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• 2015.11a
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• pp.67-69
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• 2015

최근 우리나라는 사회경제적 발전과 함께 본격적인 고도기술사회로 진입하였다. 그러나 사회의 복잡성 증가로 인하여 오히려 재난에 대한 개인의 대응 능력은 낮아지고 있다. 즉 재난발생시 개인이 파악할 수 있는 정보의 한계로 인하여 정확한 상황판단 및 재난대응이 어려워진 것이다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하고자 본 논문에서는 지향성 스피커를 활용하여 사람들에게 재난발생 상황 및 피난에 유효한 정보들을 효과적으로 제공할 수 있는 기술을 제안한다. 또한 센서네트워크를 통하여 재난상황을 종합적으로 모니터링 할 수 있는 시스템과 연계하여 IoT기반의 지향성스피커 시스템을 개발하여 다양한 사회재난에 활용이 가능한 재난상황 및 피난 유효정보 제공시스템을 제안한다.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.11 no.12
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• pp.1020-1026
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• 2005

In the era of ubiquitous computing, human-friendly man-machine interface is getting more attention due to its possibility to offer convenient services. For this, in this paper, we introduce a 'Half-Mirror Interface System (HMIS)' as a novel type of human-friendly man-machine interfaces. Basically, HMIS consists of half-mirror, USB-Webcam, microphone, 2ch-speaker, and high-speed processing unit. In our HMIS, two principal operation modes are selected by the existence of the user in front of it. The first one, 'mirror-mode', is activated when the user's face is detected via USB-Webcam. In this mode, HMIS provides three basic functions such as 1) make-up assistance by magnifying an interested facial component and TTS (Text-To-Speech) guide for appropriate make-up, 2) Daily weather information provider via WWW service, 3) Health monitoring/diagnosis service using Chinese medicine knowledge. The second one, 'display-mode' is designed to show decorative pictures, family photos, art paintings and so on. This mode is activated when the user's face is not detected for a time being. In display-mode, we also added a 'healing-window' function and 'healing-music player' function for user's psychological comfort and/or relaxation. All these functions are accessible by commercially available voice synthesis/recognition package.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.23 no.2 s.179
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• pp.43-50
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• 2006

Recently, with rapid development of semiconductor and flat panel display, the manufacturing equipments are required to have large travel range, high productivity, and high accuracy. In this paper, an ultra precision decoupled dual servo (DDS) system is proposed to meet these requirements. And a control scheme for the DDS is studied. The proposed DDS consists of a $XY{\Theta}$ fine stage for handling work-pieces precisely and a XY coarse stage for large travel range. The fine stage consists of four voice coil motors (VCM) and air bearing guides. The coarse stage consists of linear motors and air bearing guides. The DDS is mechanically decoupled between coarse stage and fine stage. Therefore, both stages must be controlled independently and the performance of the DDS is mainly determined by the fine stage. For high performance tracking, the controller of fine stage consists of time delay control (TDC) and perturbation observer while the controller of coarse stage is TDC alone. With these individual controllers, two kinds of dual-servo control strategies are suggested: master-slave type and parallel type. By simulations and experiments, the performances of two dual-servo control strategies are compared.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.63-73
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• 1997

The objective for the plan of informatization which the government earring out is the modernization of the in-formation service system to be diverse and speedy. With the increase in variety and volume of the available in-formation at the city now, it has become necessary to develop more efficient system of offering the various displays by using computer graphics and multimedia functions as well as storing and managing the information. The multimedia urban information system, which we developed, was designed to furnish various informations of the city to the citizens more efficiently by using Visual BASIC in the personal computer with inexpensive prior. The datas of text, voice, and dynamic images were integrated in this, system by multimedia tools. Also, the database was established to get the expert datas-traffic volume in peak hour, traffic accidents, and road information. as well as general urban informations.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.191-193
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• 2012

the existing developed route guidance services for the visually impaired aids for using RFID tags attached to the cane, the extent to which the cover blocks and RF communication was a simple walking guide service. It has a detection range of RFID readers in short, clear obstacles to location, size and shape can not be determined. And the risk of escape routes in case of questions or directions Measures are urgently needed. Today, due to the Smart Device Development convenience to users and offers many benefits. And the Android platform, Client and Server (PC) between the socket stream, using real-time video and voice information, location information by sending a dangerous situation for the visually impaired to take immediate action on the system and 1: N is to implement the service.