• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.129-139
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• 2013

In this paper, we proposed a new hardware architecture for calculating digital holograms at high speed, and verified it with field programmable gate array (FPGA). First, we rearranged memory scheduling and algorithm of computer generated hologram (CGH), and then introduced pipeline technique into CGH process. Finally we proposed a high-performance CGH processor. The hardware was implemented for the target of FPGA, which calculates a unit region of holograms, and it was verified using a hardware environment of NI Inc. and a FPGA of Xilinx Inc. It can generate a hologram of $16{\times}16$ size, and it takes about 4 sec for generating a hologram of a $1,024{\times}1,024$ size, using 6K point sources.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.85-89
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• 2014

In this paper, we present a speckle-free digital hologram with conversion to an off-axis horizontal-parallax-only (HPO) hologram. First, we record the speckle-free hologram using optical scanning holography. Second, we digitally convert the full-parallax hologram to a horizontal-parallax-only hologram. Third, we convert the horizontal-parallax-only hologram to an off-axis hologram. Finally, we show that the off-axis HPO hologram can be numerically reconstructed in space.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.854-865
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• 2014

This paper proposes a method to generate a stereoscopic image pair from a digital hologram by considering the situation that digital hologram data is serviced but the end-user does not have the proper display equipment, etc. We use Fresnel transform as the method to convert a digital hologram into an image. Each image of the stereoscopic image pair uses a part of the given digital hologram and the sizes of the two partial digital holograms for the two images are chosen to be the same. Here, the size of the image is adjusted by the size of the partial digital hologram and the disparity between the pair images is adjusted by the distance between the centers of the two partial hologram. This paper also deals with how to adjust the size and the disparity of the images. In this paper the generated stereoscopic images are implemented as an anaglyphic display type to confirm the feeling of distance by wearing the red-blue glasses.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.1040-1046
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• 2012

This paper propose a digital watermarking algorithm for a digital hologram which is the most valuable image content. It is highly necessary to protect the ownership of a digital hologram. This paper introduces a watermarking scheme, a method to protect the ownership of digital holograms using the Fresnel transform domain data as the ones to be watermarked. Experiment results indicated that the proposed scheme was very imperceptible in the digital hologram and in the reconstructed holographic image. Also, they showed quite strong resistance to most of the attacks. we expect that the conclusions of this paper can be the basis for further research on the digital watermarking for digital holograms.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.11C
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• pp.1053-1059
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• 2005

The computer generated hologram (CGH) designs and produces digital information for generating 3-D (3-Dimension) image using computer and software instead of optically-sensed hologram of light interference, and it can synthesis a virtual object which is physically not in existence. Since digital hologram includes an amount of data as can be seen at the process of digitization, it is necessary that the data representing digital hologram is reduced for storing, transmission, and processing. As the efforts that are to handle hologram with a type of digital information have been increased, various methods to compress digital hologram called by fringe pattern are groped. Suitable proposal is encoding of hologram. In this paper, we analyzed the properties of CGH using tools of frequency transform, assuming that a generated CGH is a 2D image by introducing DWT that is known as the better tool than DCT for frequency transform. The compression and reconstruction result which was extracted from the wavelet-based codecs illustrates that it has better properties for reconstruction at the maximum 2 times higher compression rate than the Previous researches of Yoshikawa[2] and Thomas[3].

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.5C
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• pp.386-394
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• 2008

For digital holographic video system, it is important to generate digital hologram as fast as possible. This paper proposed a fixed-point method and fast generation method that can calculate the Fresnel hologram using operation of whole-coordinate recursive addition. To compute the digital hologram, 3D object is assumed to be a collection of depth-map point generated using a PC. Our algorithm can compute a phase on a hologram by recursive addition with fixed-point format at a high speed. When we operated this algorithm on a personal computer, we could maximally compute digital hologram about 70% faster than conventional method and about 30% faster than of [3]'s method.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.1-12
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• 2012

This paper is to propose a method to obtain a new digital hologram content, a high value-added digital content, by manipulating one or more existing digital hologram contents or depth informations. For the depth informations, we use both the ones converted from disparities by stereo matching and the ones taken by time-of-flight (TOF) depth cameras. For them, we analyze the properties and their differences for the two kinds of depth informations and propose a conversion method to homogenize them. By using them, we propose a method to convert and synthesize the depth informations to calculate a new CGH. Also, we propose a method to get a new digital hologram content by synthesizing the digital holograms themselves according to their linearity. The proposed methods are experimented with various depth informations and digital holograms to show that they are very effective as the manipulating methods for digital hologram contents.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.403-415
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• 2011

In this paper, we proposed a hardware architecture to generate digital holograms at high speed. It used the modified computer-generated hologram (CGH) algorithm and adapted the pipeline-based hardware to be able to remove memory bottleneck problem. It uses not the method which generates a hologram by accumulating intermittent holograms but the one which independently generates a pixel of a final hologram and uses the appropriate CGH algorithm for the selected method. Based on the CGH algorithm we proposed the architecture of the digital hologram generator which consists of input interface part, calculating part, and normalizing part. The hardware can decrease memory usage because it repeatedly use object light sources which is stored in the internal buffer. It is also operationally parallelized by vertically adding unit cells. It can generate 86 frames of HD digital hologram per 1 second for 1K light sources.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.452-462
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• 2019

A digital hologram, which is one of the next generation visual systems, can be generated and displayed in various formats, and a digital hologram is created in accordance with the characteristics of the system for display. Diffraction efficiency can be used as a measure of the characteristics of digital holograms generaged under various conditions in various display environments. In this paper, diffraction efficiency for computer-generated hologram (CGH) under various conditions was measured. This paper discusses the generation conditions that should be considered in hologram display. We compared each condition by measuring the intensity of the first order diffraction pattern of the fringe generated under the Fresnel condition for the phase hologram. Through this paper, we showed the tend about characteristics of the diffraction efficiency according to object point, reconstruction distance, laser and SLM.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.460-469
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• 2022

Increasing interest in the metaverse world these days, interest in realistic content such as 3D displays is growing. In particular, hologram images seen in movies provide viewers with an immersive display that cannot be seen in conventional 2D images. Since the first discovery of holography by Dennis Gabor in 1948, this technology has developed rapidly. Spatially, this beginning of technology like Optical hologram called analog hologram and Digital hologram such as computer-generated hologram (CGH). In analog and digital holograms, a recording angle and a recording wavelength are having important role when reproducing and display hologram. In the hologram, diffraction of light causes by unexpected formed by the synthesis from interference with object and reference light. When recording, the incident light information and mismatched reproduction light reconstruct the hologram in an undesirable direction. Reproduction light that is out of sync with incident light information with initial condition of recording will cause reconstructed image in an undesirable direction. Therefore, we analyze the holographic interference pattern generated by hologram recording in volume holograms using photopolymer and analyze the characteristics that vary depending on the angle of the reproduced light. This is expected to be used as a basic research on various holographic application that may cause as holograms are applied to industries in the future.