• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.35S no.1
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• pp.96-104
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• 1998

A new gray-scale thinning algorithm using local min/max operations is proposed. In this method, erosion and dilation properties of local min/max operations are using for generating new rides and detecting ridges in gray scale image, and gray-scale skeletons are gradually obtained by accumulating the detected ridges. This method can be applicable to the unsegmented image in which object are not specified, and the obtained skeletons correspond to the ridges (high gray values) of an input image.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.57 no.1
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• pp.137-141
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• 2008

Biochip, which implements bioanalytical process on a tiny surface, is one of candidates for medical diagnosis, drug screening, and molecular sensing. In general, a type of biochip based on microfluidics is composed of microcomponents including microchannel, pump, and valve, which require complicated processes. In this study, gray-scale photolithography(GSPL) was applied to fabricate a biochip with multiple layers. A mould for casting PDMS(polydimethylsiloxane) channel, was fabricated using GSPL. A gray-photomask was prepared by printing gray patterns on a high-quality glossy paper followed by photoreducing by 10:1 onto the photo-film. The formation of multiple layers was studied according to the change of gray level of pattern and the developing time. A biochip composed of a weir(multiple layer structure) and a reaction chamber in a single microchannel was fabricated in a glass plate. Finally, we investigated the application of biochip to antigen-antibody reaction by packing the microbead coated with antibody.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.09a
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• pp.705-708
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• 2000

일반적인 LCD의 색 재현 특성은 입력 디지털 값이 낮을수록 gray scale의 상관색온도가 상승하여 정확한 색 재현이 불가능하다. 본 논문에서는 LCD의 입력 디지털 값의 변화에 따른 특성을 조사하고, luminance, contrast 비 등의 특성에 열화없이 gray scale의 입력 잘 변화에 따른 상관색온도의 변화를 보정하기 위해서 입력 디지털 값을 조정하는 새로운 LUT를 제안하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.6
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• pp.255-260
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• 2014

A new sustain driving waveform and its implementation method is proposed to improve the gray scale linearity by applying the sustain waveform for producing the strong and weak discharge in AC plasma display panel. The driving method to express the gray scale of AC PDP is the combination of the several subfield in one TV frame, and the luminance of the each subfield is decided by the number of the sustain pulses. As the same amount of the strong plasma discharge is produced when the sustain pulses are applied during a sustain period, it looks easy to express the linear gray scale ideally. However, it is difficult to express the real linear gray scale due to the production of the address and first sustain discharge irrelevant to gray scale expression in every subfleld. Therefore, a new sustain driving waveformis adopted to produce partially the weak discharge instead of the strong discharge by the modification of the sustain pulses shape during the sustain period and the gray scale expression is close to the linearity.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.21 no.9
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• pp.7-11
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• 2007

The objective of this study is to evaluate the characteristics of a newly proposed high-speed drive method for the gray scale display for high-resolution plasma display panels(PDP). In the experiment it was found that the characteristics of gray scale display are not closely affected by a priming period below 50[${\mu}s$], the width of the priming period, and that it can be driven stably from the brightest sub-field to the darkest sub-field even though a priming discharge is applied to the 1 TV-field only once. Moreover, from the experimental result, the gray scale pattern of 8-bit and 9 sub-fields was stably displayed in the experimental PDP with scan pulses having the pulse width of 0.7[${\mu}s$]. An address voltage margin of about 25[V] and a sustain voltage margin of about 10[V] was obtained.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.647-650
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• 2005

A new driving scheme, Address and Display Period Complex Driving for Expanding Gray Scale(ACE), is proposed by mixing Address Display period Separated(ADS) and Address While Display(AWD). In this method scan lines are divided in blocks driving by AWD and scan lines in block progress sequential high speed addressing. ADS driving get accomplished in low gray level for expanding gray scale. Scan time is reduced and the number of subfields is increased by high speed addressing of ACE. That expands the gray scale and decreases the dynamic false contour. Also, that improves contrast by using ramp reset.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.08a
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• pp.520-523
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• 2007

In this paper, we present a novel method to minimize flicker and gray scale errors automatically across the entire panel by using a compensation of the gray levels of image. It was realized by image simulation with feedback structure. As a result of simulation, we observed flickers from the simulated image. And we compensated the gray scale levels for original image. The compensated gray scale levels correspond to flickers which are generated by difference of pixel voltage in odd and even frame. And we simulated repetitively the compensated image by our block diagram for reduction flicker. Consequently, we confirmed flickers have been decreased more than 87%. Furthermore, our method provides visualization and valid prediction for improvement of TFT-LCD panel

• Journal of the Korean Academy of Clinical Electrophysiology
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.39-43
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• 2010

Purpose : The purpose of this study was to analyze skin reactions induced by ultraviolet irradiation using digital imagery. Methods : We recruited 15 women and ultraviolet irradiation was applied to their lumbar area. (The degree of inflammatory reaction was set on the basis of the third erythema dose. Image analysis was divided by Photoshop CS (8 bit RGB scale and gray scale). Then, images were processes using Image Pro Plus 4.5 program analyzing R, G, B, chromatic red value, luminance value and gray value. Results : As a result of analyzing changes in RGB scale, there were statistically significant differences in R, G, and chromatic red values. As a result of analyzing changes in gray scale, there were statistically significant differences in gray value. Analysis of changes in B and luminance values showed that there was no statistically significant difference. Conclusion : This study found that ultraviolet irradiation had influence on RGB and gray scale. These results suggest that changes to digital images on skin reaction by ultraviolet irradiation are related to erythema. In particular, these changes are related to R and gray values.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.388-394
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• 2010

In this paper the object recognition performance of a photon counting integral imaging system is quantitatively compared with that of a conventional gray scale imaging system. For 3D imaging of objects with a small number of photons, the elemental image set of a 3D scene is obtained using the integral imaging set up. We assume that the elemental image detection follows a Poisson distribution. Computational geometrical ray back propagation algorithm and parametric maximum likelihood estimator are applied to the photon counting elemental image set in order to reconstruct the original 3D scene. To evaluate the photon counting object recognition performance, the normalized correlation peaks between the reconstructed 3D scenes are calculated for the varied and fixed total number of photons in the reconstructed sectional image changing the total number of image channels in the integral imaging system. It is quantitatively illustrated that the recognition performance of the photon counting integral imaging system can be similar to that of a conventional gray scale imaging system as the number of image viewing channels in the photon counting integral imaging (PCII) system is increased up to the threshold point. Also, we present experiments to find the threshold point on the total number of image channels in the PCII system which can guarantee a comparable recognition performance with a gray scale imaging system. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report on comparisons of object recognition performance with 3D photon counting & gray scale images.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.08a
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• pp.211-214
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• 2002

We present gray scale implementation method based on QMA driving technique. We clarified the mechanism of wall charge quantization through discharge current measurement. We used three wall charge states to implement gray scale. The cells would be one of fully-ON, half-On, and OFF states. We built a five sub-fields 243 level gray scale with sustain pulse count of 2, 6, 18, 54, and 162.