• Transactions of Materials Processing
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• v.14 no.6 s.78
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• pp.570-576
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• 2005

Powder Injection Molding(PIM) has recently been recognized as an advanced manufacturing technology for low-cost mass production of metal or ceramic parts of complicated geometry With this regards, design technology of dental scaler tip PIM mold, which has complex shape and small core pin (diameter=0.6mm), with the help of computer-aided analysis of powder injection molding process was developed. Computer-aided analysis for dental scaler tip mold was implemented by finite element method with non-Newtonian fluid, modified Cross model viscosity, PvT data of powder/binder mixture. Compter-aided analysis results, such as filling pattern, weldline formation, air vent position prediction were compared with experimental result, and eventually have been shown good agreement. The core pin (diameter=0.6mm) deflection analysis of dental scaler tip PIM mold during PIM filling process was also investigated before mold fabrication.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.06a
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• pp.296-299
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• 2013

디스플레이 기술이 발전함에 따라 다양한 크기의 디스플레이를 탑재한 장치들이 등장하게 되었고, 다양한 디스플레이 크기만큼 다양한 해상도를 사용하고 있다. 때문에 비디오 코덱과 scaler는 보편적으로 함께 사용된다. 그러나 기존의 scaler는 비디오 코덱의 복호화기와 화면 해상도 변환 모듈이 독립적으로 구성되고, 서로 간에 정보를 이용하지 않으므로 시스템의 성능 개선에 한계가 존재하였다. 즉, 비디오 코덱의 복호화기는 비트스트림으로부터 복호한 정보를 바탕으로 영상을 복원하고, 복원영상은 up/down scaler에서 확대/축소를 수행한다. 하지만 비디오 코덱의 비트스트림에 존재하는 정보는 영상의 특성을 반영하기 때문에 up/down scaler에서 비디오 코덱의 복호화기에서 복호된 정보를 이용하면 복잡도의 증가 없이 효율적인 확대/축소를 수행할 수 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 비디오 코덱 중 차세대 비디오 코덱인 H.264/AVC 복호화기에서 생성된 복원 영상에 대해서 별도로 영상의 특성을 계산하는 모듈 없이 H.264/AVC 복호화기에서 복원된 정보 중 인트라 모드 정보를 바탕으로 영상의 특성에 맞는 up/down scaler를 구현하는 방법을 제안한다. 이 방법은 기존의 scaler들보다 물체의 경계영역을 더 선명하게 확대하는 효과를 보인다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.343-344
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• 2006

Powder injection molding(PIM) is widely used for many parts in the field of automotives, electronics and medical industries, due to the capability of net shaping for complex 3-D geometry. Powder injection mold design fur the dental scaler tip, a component of medical appliance, was presented. In comparison with conventional machining process, powder injection molding has many advantages, specially in price and dimensional stability, for molding dental scaler tip which has complex geometry. Both product design and mold design for dental scaler tip were presented. The 'rapid mold' concept was applied to manufacture the various forms of dental scaler tip.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.47 no.6
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• pp.22-34
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• 2010

Existing image scalers generally adopt simple interpolation methods such as bilinear method to take cost-benefit, or highly complex architectures to achieve high quality resulting images. However, demands for a low power, low cost, and high performance image scaler become more important because of emerging high quality mobile contents. In this paper we propose the novel low power hardware architecture for a high quality raster scan image scaler. The proposed scaler architecture enhances the existing cubic interpolation look-up table architecture by reducing and optimizing memory access and hardware components. The input data buffer of existing image scaler is replaced with line memories to reduce the number of memory access that is critical to power consumption. The cubic interpolation formula used in existing look-up table architecture is also rearranged to reduce the number of the multipliers and look-up table size. Finally we analyze the optimized parameter sets of look-up table, which is a trade-off between quality of result image and hardware size.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.707-718
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• 2008

We derive a modified version of the cubic convolution scaler to enlarge or reduce the size of digital image with arbitrary ratio. To enhance the edge information of the scaled image and to obtain a high-quality scaled image, the proposed scaler is applied along the direction of an edge. Since interpolation along the direction of an edge has to process nonuniformly sampled data, the kernel of the cubic convolution scaler is modified to interpolate the data. The proposed scaling scheme can be used to resize pictures in various formats in a transcoding system that transforms a bit stream compressed at one bit rate into one compressed at another bit rate. In many applications, such as transcoders, the resolution conversion is very important for changing the image size while maintaining high quality of the scaled image. We show experimental results that demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed interpolation method. The proposed scheme provides clearer edges, without artifacts, in the resized image than do conventional schemes. The algorithm exhibits significant improvement in the minimization of information loss when compared with the conventional interpolation algorithms.

• Journal of Periodontal and Implant Science
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.531-542
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• 2001

Periodontal debridement is most important procedure in periodontal treatment, because periodontal disease is the biofilm infection. The use of ultrasonic instrument has many clinical advantages compared to classical hand instrument. The introduction of newly developed ultrasonic scaler tips made the use of ultrasonic scaler popular. However the study of tooth substance removal according to the working parameters of ultrasonic scaler with newly developed tips is not sufficient. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of working parameters of piezoelectric ultrasonic scaler with curette tip on casting gold removal. The working parameters was standardized by the sledge device which controls lateral force(0.5 N, 1.0 N, 2.0 N) and power setting was adjusted 2, 4, 8 in P mode and S mode and instrumentation time was 5 seconds. The defect depth and width were measured with profile meter and defect surface was examined by SME. The depth of defect was significantly large in S mode( $39.58{\pm}19.35{\mu}m$) compared to P mode( $8.37{\pm}6.98{\mu}m$). There was significant decrease of depth of defect between 1.0N($32.87{\pm}27.18{\mu}m$) and 2.0N( $14.86{\pm}15.04{\mu}m$). The area of defect was also significantly large in S mode($4482.42{\pm}3551.71{\mu}m^2$) compared to P mode( $922.06{\pm}960.32{\mu}m^2$). There was significant decrease of area of defect between 1.0N($3889.12{\pm}3936.00{\mu}m$) and 2.0N( $974.66{\pm}986.01{\mu}m$). The change of mode did not effect on the width of the defect. The change of power setting did not effect on the depth, width, and area of defect. In spite of limitation of this study it could be concluded that the use of piezoelectric ultrasonic scaler with curette tip on S mode could make significant tooth substance loss.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.296-302
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• 2023

As Multimedia industry has evolved, it has become possible to display resolutions in various formats. Therefore, the performance of a scaler algorithm that converts resolutions while maintaining high quality and its hardware implementation are important. Considering the hardware design of an image up/down scaler, this paper proposes a combinatorial scaler algorithm that uses modified bilinear interpolation in the vertical direction and bicubic interpolation in the horizontal direction to reduce the line memory burden. Through quantitative and qualitative evaluations, this paper compared the performance of the proposed algorithm with three other well-known algorithms, and also compared the hardware burden of its hardware implementation. This paper used a sinusoidal signal and eight typical images for performance evaluation.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.26-32
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• 2024

Recently, various video resolution formats have emerged, and digital devices have built in dedicated scaler chips to support them by enlarging or reducing the resolution of input videos. Therefore, the performance and hardware size of scaler chips are important. In this paper, the combinatorial interpolation scaler algorithm proposed by Han is used to design the hardware using the line memory structure with dual-clock proposed by Han and Jung. The proposed hardware is capable of real-time processing in QHD environments, designed using Verilog, and validated using Xilinx's Vivado 2023.1. We also verify the performance of Han's proposed algorithm with a quantitative numerical evaluation of the proposed hardware.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.83-84
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• 2006

Due to the capability of net shaping for complex 3D geometry, powder injection molding (PIM) is widely used for automotive parts, electronics and medical industry. In this study, an ultrasonic dental scaler tip produced by machining process was redesigned for the PIM process. An injection mold was designed and manufactured to produce the dental scaler tip by the PIM process.

• Proceedings of the Korean Powder Metallurgy Institute Conference
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• 2006.09a
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• pp.499-500
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• 2006

With the capability of net shaping for complex 3D geometry, powder injection molding (PIM) is widely used for automotive parts, electronics and medical industry. In this study, an ultrasonic dental scaler tip produced by machining process was redesigned for the PIM process. An injection mold was designed and machined to produce the dental scaler tip by the PIM process.