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Evaluation of Dynamic Characteristics of Coarse Actuator and Design of a 2-Wire Fine Actuator for Small Form Factor ODD (초소형 광디스크 드라이브용 조동구동기의 동특성 평가 및 2-와이어 미세 구동기의 개발)

  • 박세준;이강녕;이동주;박노철;박영필
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2004.05a
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    • pp.351-351
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    • 2004
  • For greeting the era of ubiquitous network, data storage devices have been essentially attached to mobile data devices. As a result, the minimization of the storage device has arisen as major interests in the next generation data storage technology. So, there are many researches for the small form factor ODD. In this paper, we propose a pick up that consists of a linear VCM and 2-wire focusing actuator for a small form factor ODD. For the sake of checking performance of the coarse actuator, PID controller is designed. Experiment with controller and DSP board shows its propriety as a fine tracking actuator. And, 2-wire suspension actuator is designed in order to be contained in a coarse actuator and to satisfy the thickness of a PCMCIA type. Through the experiment of designed actuator, It verifies performance as a focusing actuator.

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Authoring Personal Virtual Studio Using Tangible Augmented Reality (탠저블 증강현실을 활용한 개인용 가상스튜디오 저작)

  • Rhee, Gue-Won;Lee, Jae-Yeol;Nam, Ji-Seung;Hong, Sung-Hoon
    • Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.77-88
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    • 2008
  • Nowadays personal users create a variety of multi-media contents and share them with others through various devices over the Internet since the concept of user created content (UCC) has been widely accepted as a new paradigm in today's multi-media market, which has broken the boundary of contents providers and consumers. This paradigm shift has also introduced a new business model that makes it possible for them to create their own multi-media contents for commercial purpose. This paper proposes a tangible virtual studio using augmented reality to author multi-media contents easily and intuitively for personal broadcasting and personal content generation. It provides a set of tangible interfaces and devices such as visual markers, cameras, movable and rotatable arms carrying cameras, and miniaturized set. They can offer an easy-to-use interface in an immersive environment and an easy switching mechanism between tangible environment and virtual environment. This paper also discusses how to remove inconsistency between real objects and virtual objects during the AR-enabled visualization with a context-adaptable tracking method. The context-adaptable tracking method not only adjusts the locations of invisible markers by interpolating the locations of existing reference markers, but also removes a jumping effect of movable virtual objects when their references are changed from one marker to another.

Efficient Method of Detecting Blurry Images

  • Tsomko, Elena;Kim, Hyoung-Joong;Paik, Joon-Ki;Yeo, In-Kwon
    • Journal of Ubiquitous Convergence Technology
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.27-39
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    • 2008
  • In this paper we present a simple, efficient method for detecting the blurry photographs. Recently many digital cameras are equipped with various auto-focusing functions to help users take well-focused pictures as easily as possible. In addition, motion compensation devices are able to compensate motion causing blurriness in the images. However, digital pictures can be degraded by limited contrast, inappropriate exposure, imperfection of auto-focusing or motion compensating devices, unskillfulness of the photographers, and so on. In order to decide whether to process the images or not, or whether to delete them or not, reliable measure of image degradation to detect blurry images from sharp ones is needed. This paper presents a blurriness/sharpness measure, and demonstrates its feasibility by using extensive experiments. This method is fast, easy to implement and accurate. Regardless of the detection accuracy, the proposed measure in this paper is not demanding in computation time. Needless to say, this measure can be used for various imaging applications including auto-focusing and astigmatism correction.

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Dynamic Load Balancing and Network Adaptive Virtual Storage Service for Mobile Appliances

  • Ong, Ivy;Lim, Hyo-Taek
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.53-62
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    • 2011
  • With the steady growth of mobile technology and applications, demand for more storage in mobile devices has also increased. A lightweight block-level protocol, Internet Advanced Technology Attachment (iATA), has been developed to deliver a cost-effective storage network solution for mobile devices to obtain more storage. This paper seeks to contribute to designing and implementing Load Balancing (LB), Network Monitoring (NM) and Write Replication (WR) modules to improve the protocol's scalability and data availability. LB and NM modules are invoked to collect system resources states and current network status at each associate node (server machine). A dynamic weight factor is calculated based on the collected information and sent to a referral server. The referral server is responsible to analyze and allocate the most ideal node with the least weight to serve the client. With this approach, the client can avoid connecting to a heavily loaded node that may cause delays in subsequent in-band I/O operations. Write replication is applied to the remaining nodes through a WR module by utilizing the Unison file synchronization program. A client initially connected to node IP A for write operations will have no hindrances in executing the relevant read operations at node IP B in new connections. In the worst case scenario of a node crashing, data remain recoverable from other functioning nodes. We have conducted several benchmark tests and our results are evaluated and verified in a later section.

Implementation of U-Healthcare Environment for Patient Recognition Applied Algorithms of Extracting Face Feature Points (안면 특징점 추출 알고리즘을 적용한 환자 인식 U-Healthcare 환경 구현)

  • Lee, Seung-Ho;Lim, Myung-Jae
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.53-57
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    • 2009
  • In this paper to computerized patient management of patients applying for a facial recognition algorithm to extract Face Feature Points environment, the implementation of the U-Healthcare offers. First, mobile devices and the pictures and photos of the patient data used as input data, the algorithm AdaBoost Face Feature Points patterns extracted, then stored in an existing database, extracted from the patient's sample photos, matching patterns and makes Face Feature Points. The result is the same patient if the patient information database, in recognizing the disease, doctors, and medical fields to extract the relevant information on the screen to output devices, the patient will present the implementation of recognition system.

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Running Large-scale Mobile Software using PDA Cluster Computing (PDA 클러스터 컴퓨팅을 활용한 대용량 모바일 소프트웨어 실행)

  • Min, Hye-Rhyn;Lee, Jong-Woo
    • Journal of Digital Contents Society
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.249-258
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    • 2009
  • As wireless internet markets become larger than before, many mobile applications are also being developed actively. In this circumstances mobile devices such as cell phones, PDAs are playing an important role to satisfy the user's need of ubiquitous computing. Due to the hardware limitations, however, the mobile devices like PDA can not run large-scale softwares by itself. The main goal of this paper is to make large-scale applications runnable on PDA. To accomplish this, we used the PDA-JPVM cluster computing engine which has been already developed by us. We found out by running the applications and the performance evaluation that large-scale Java softwares can easily run on the hardware-limited PDA. And the performance evaluation results are also presented.

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Handoff Management for Mobile Devices in Hybrid Wireless Data Networks

  • Inayat Riaz;Aibara Reiji;Nishimura Kouji
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.76-86
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    • 2005
  • Today's wireless access networks consist of several tiers that overlap each other. Provisioning of real time undisrupted communication to mobile users, anywhere and anytime through these heterogeneous overlay networks, is a challenging task. We extend the end-to-end approach for the handoff management in hybrid wireless data network by designing a fully mobile-controlled handoff for mobile devices equipped with dual mode interfaces. By handoff, we mean switching the communication between interfaces connected to different subnets. This mobile-controlled handoff scheme reduces the service disruption time during both horizontal and vertical handoffs and does not require any modification in the access networks. We exploit the IP diversity created by the dual interfaces in the overlapping area by simultaneously connecting to different subnets and networks. Power saving is achieved by activating both interfaces only during the handoff period. The performance evaluation of the handoff is carried out by a simple mathematical analysis. The analysis shows that with proper network engineering, exploiting the speed of mobile node and overlapping area between subnets can reduce service disruption and power consumption during handoff significantly. We believe that with more powerful network interfaces our proposal of dual interfaces can be realized.

Analysis of Global Trends and Issues of Cognitive Radio (Cognitive Radio 연구의 국내외 동향과 이슈 분석)

  • Moon, Sangook
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2009.10a
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    • pp.969-972
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    • 2009
  • With the advent of the era of ubiquitous computing, the number of wireless communication devices has been exponentially increasing, which phenomenon requires for the preparation for the upcoming shortage of frequency resource. Recently, in consequence, the concept of Cognitive Radio (CR) was introduced in which the wireless nodes periodically recognize and learn the external conditions of communication including the usage of the frequency spectrum. It is essential to assure sufficient range of frequency to satisfy the users of the increasing wireless network devices. However, since not only the frequency band for wireless communication is finite, but most part of them had already been assigned for the primary users of the wireless network service, it is very difficult to ensure the band of frequency for additional communication service. In this contribution, we analyze and describe the issues of designing and implementation of CR networks.

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Implementation of Web Services Framework for Web Services on Universal Networks (유니버설 네트워크 상에서 웹서비스 프레임워크 구현)

  • Yim, Hyung-Jun;Oh, Il-Jin;Hwang, Yun-Young;Lee, Kyong-Ha;Lee, Kang-Chan;Lee, Seung-Yun;Lee, Kyu-Chul
    • Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.143-157
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    • 2008
  • Ubiquitous Web Services is able to be specified future Web Services technology for connecting with various application services in any device and network environments. The devices, in ubiquitous environment, have dynamic characteristic such as location and statuse. So, we must support methods of dynamic service discovery in ad-hoc network. There are many related works at transaction, security, QoS, semantic and Web Services composition with various fields. Recently, the studies are interested in the Ubiquitous by development of computing and network technology. However, they are an early stage. For this reason, in this paper, we propose a WSUN(Web Services on Universal Networks) for Ubiquitous Web Services. It is a SOA based framework. And this paper extracts necessity of WSUN environment from scenario. The framework is composed of US Broker(Universal Service Broker). It is designed for satisfying the conditions and supports dynamic service discovery using a US Registry (Universal Service Registry). Consequently. clients are able to discover and use Universal Service by protocol stack of the US Broker for Web Services. And it is a strong point which supports interoperability between heterogeneous networks.

Study on the Legal Establishment of u-City Management Center ; Focusing on its Function and Location (u-City 통합운영센터의 제도적 정착방안에 관한 연구 ; 기능 및 입지를 중심으로)

  • Cho, Chun-Man;Kim, Jung-Hoon
    • Spatial Information Research
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.269-276
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    • 2009
  • For the development and management of u-City(ubiquitous city), Ubiquitous City Construction Law was enacted(March 3, 2008) to form the legal basis of u-City plan, construction and managements afterwards. Among u-City elements, the u-City Management Center has its own meaning and importance in roles which are crucial to the u-City developments, and its legal establishment is one of the core u-City realization factors. The purpose of this study is to analyse its overall problem issues regarding the function and location of u-City Management Center and then to suggest the basic direction and enforcement strategies to form its legal basis. As a result, in order to enhance the possibility of successful realization of u-City Management Center, the classification and standardization of function type, allocation of detailed functions based on u-City project hierarchy, and practical definition and relationships among basic u-City components such as u-City Service and Infrastructure were suggested. Also, practical execution devices on revenue sources and private sector participation, as well as the legal basis stipulating the mandatory inclusion of u-City Management Center development for u-City projects, were suggested.

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