• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.25-31
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• 2016

이 전에 발표한 멀티스케일 기가픽셀카메라에 대한 두 편의 이론과 실험연구를 바탕으로 본 논문에서는 최종적이고 종합적인 28개의 구조방정식들을 도출하였다. 본 논문의 결과 식들을 활용하면 어레이카메라 방식으로 구성되는 멀티스케일 기가픽셀카메라의 광학구조에 대한 통찰적인 이해가 가능하게 될 것이고 완전하고 신속하게 다양한 구조인자 값들을 손쉽게 획득 할 수 있을 것이다.

• 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.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.44-53
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• 2015

현재의 이미지 센서기술은 메가픽셀 급에 한정되어 있는데 메가픽셀 급의 이미지 센서로 기가픽셀의 이미지를 생성하기 위해서는 필수적으로 중첩영역의 이미지를 하나로 합성하는 스티칭(stitching) 기법을 쓸 수밖에 없다. 본 논문에서는 로봇파노라마헤드와 스티칭 기법을 사용하여 기가픽셀카메라 기술의 전 과정을 탐구해 보았다. 그리고 이 과정을 통해서 얻어진 경험이나 이해를 바탕으로 듀크대와 BAE의 기가픽셀카메라 기술에 대해서도 설계해석을 시도해 보았다. 또 나아가, 새로운 기가픽셀카메라의 광학구조에 대한 모색도 시도해 보았다. 기가픽셀카메라 기술에서는 스티칭 작업과는 별도로 먼거리의 피사체 혹은 대기오염과 같은 원인으로 발생하는 흐릿한 영상부분을 보정하는 것이 필수적이라는 것도 파악되었다.

• 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 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.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.141-145
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• 2017

기존의 표준적인 비구면 방정식보다 고도의 비구면을 훨씬 더 효과적으로 생성해 낼 수 있는 Forbes 비구면 방정식을 활용하여 F/1.8의 스마트폰용 카메라렌즈를 설계하였고 설계목표를 달성하기 위한 설계의 주요 방법론과 설계의 절차적인 과정에 대해서도 설명하였다.