Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Lg Electronics Inc.

Honeywell International Inc.

Seoul National University

Soongsil University

Jae-Jin Lee

Kwang Il Oh

Sung Eun Kim

Tae Wook Kang

In Gi Lim

Hyung-Il Park

Hyuk Joo Kim

Kyung Jin Byun

Mi Jeong Park

Kyuseung Han

Seong Mo Park

Sukho Lee

Hyoung-Sub Choi

Jae-Ho Jang

Young Hwan Bae

Kyung Hwan Park

Nak Woong Eum

You-pyo Hong

Sang Pil Kim

Jae-seong Shim

Hyun-Soo Park

Joo-Hyun Lee

Sung Weon Kang

Jun Young Lee

Byounggun Choi

Ju-han Bae

Woojoo Lee

Bernhard Egger

Do-Won Kim

Joo Hyun Lee

Byung-kyu Lee

Woo-Kwang Lee

Chang-Seok Lee

Kyung Su Kim

Kwang-Eui Pyun

Byung-Jun Kim

In San Jeon

Shin-hee Cho

Dong-Rak Shin

Sang Heon Lee

Bo-Woo Kim

Young-Jin Bae

Je-Phil Ahn

Kyu-suk Lee

Ji-Sun Shin

Jae-hoon Seo

Min-Ju Lee

Min-Gun Kim

Eung-Gie Oh

Seong-Eun Kim

Hong-Gyu Kim

Sung-Jae Maeng

Dong-Hyuk Park

Geun-Young Park

Sung-Won Kang

Hyeong Uk Jang

Jun-Seong Park

Joung-Ho Lim

Young-Lak Kim

Hae-Gwon Lee

Seong-Jae Maeng

Hong-June Kim

Kwang-Jun Yun

Disclosed are a biometric authentication device and a fingerprint authentication device including the same. The biometric authentication device includes a clock generator that generates a clock signal, an authentication signal generator that generates an authentication signal based on the clock signal, a transmission electrode that transmits the authentication signal to a contact body, a reception electrode that receives a channel pass signal in which the authentication signal passes through a channel of the contact body, and a biometric authenticator that restores the channel pass signal and compares the restored channel pass signal with the authentication signal to generate a biometric authentication signal indicating whether the contact body is a biological tissue. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to improve the security of a fingerprint authentication device.

Biometric authentication device and fingerprint authentication device including the same

Disclosed is an SNN circuit including a spike generator that receives an input spike signal and converts the input spike signal into a sub-spike signal and a main spike signal, a synaptic circuit that generates an operation signal based on a weight and outputs the operation signal in response to the main spike signal, a membrane capacitor that accumulates the operation signal, and a potential correction circuit that corrects an output terminal voltage of the synaptic circuit based on a voltage of the membrane capacitor.

Spike neural network circuit

Disclosed is an encoder including event layer outputs first and second event signals, weight layer applies first and second weights to the first and second event signals respectively, and provides the first event signal in which the first weight is applied and the second event signal in which the second weight is applied to first node, and first spike generation circuit generates first input spike signal of which firing period is changed based on voltage level of the first node. The voltage level of the first node is reduced continuously, increases for first voltage corresponding to the first weight in response to the first event signal activated, and increases for second voltage corresponding to the second weight in response to the second event signal activated.

Encoder and operation method thereof

Disclosed is a network-on-chip including a first data converter that receives first image data and second image data from at least one image sensor and encodes one image data among the first image data and the second image data, into first data, based on whether the first image data is identical to the second image data and a second data converter that receives non-image data from at least one non-image sensor and encodes the received non-image data into second data. The network-on-chip outputs the first data and the second data to transmit the first data and the second data to an external server at a burst length.

Network-on-chip for processing data, sensor device including processor based on network-on-chip and data processing method of sensor device

Disclosed is an operating method of a user communication device, which includes receiving a wakeup signal from a stationary communication device over a first human body communication channel, the wakeup signal having a frequency in a low frequency band, switching from a standby mode to a wakeup mode in response to the wakeup signal, and receiving a data signal from the stationary communication device over the first human body communication channel during the wakeup mode, and the first human body communication channel is provided by a body of a user of the user communication device.

User communication device executing standby mode, operating method thereof, and human body communication system including the same

A low power system on chip for supporting partial clock gating is provided. The system on chip includes a network on chip including a first CG-network interface module, a second CG-network interface module, and a clock gating control module, a first IP block that communicates through the first CG-network interface module, and a second IP block that communicates through the second CG-network interface module. The clock gating control module receives a clock gating request from the first IP block, outputs a communication control signal to the second CG-network interface module in response to the received clock gating request, and performs a clock gating operation for a clock signal in response to the received clock gating request to selectively deliver the clock signal to the second IP block.

Low power system on chip

A hybrid communication device, an operation method thereof, and a communication system including the same are provided. The hybrid communication device includes a contact unit that includes an antenna for receiving a first communication signal and an electrode for receiving a second signal, a switch controller that includes a first switch and a second switch and controls the first switch and the second switch based on a change in capacitance of the electrode, and a signal processing unit that receives at least one of the first communication signal and the second communication signal from the contact unit via the first switch and processes the received signal. The first switch is connected to the contact unit, and the signal processing unit is connected to the first switch.

Communication device, operation method thereof, and communication system including the same

Provided is a spike neural network circuit including a synapse configured to generate an operation signal based on an input spike signal and a weight, and a neuron configured to generate an output spike signal using a comparator configured to compare a voltage of a membrane signal generated based on the operation signal with a voltage of a threshold signal, wherein the comparator includes a bias circuit configured to conditionally supply a bias current of the comparator depending on the membrane signal.

Spike neural network circuit including comparator operated by conditional bias current

Disclosed is a method of operating a system-on-chip automatic design device. The system-on-chip automatic design device includes a first synthesizer and a second synthesizer. The method includes generating a first code, based on information of a first signal and information of a second signal that are used in a first IP (Intellectual Property) block, classifying a first signal code corresponding to the first signal and a second signal code corresponding to the second signal from the first code, synthesizing, through the first synthesizer, a first communication architecture configured to transmit the first signal, based on the classified first signal code, and synthesizing, through the second synthesizer, a second communication architecture configured to transmit the second signal based on the classified second signal code.

System-on-chip automatic design device and operation method thereof

Provided is a capsule endoscope. The capsule endoscope includes: an imaging device configured to perform imaging on a digestive tract in vivo to generate an image; an artificial neural network configured to determine whether there is a lesion area in the image; and a transmitter configured to transmit the image based on a determination result of the artificial neural network.

Capsule endoscope for determining lesion area and receiving device

A gas-detecting apparatus includes a pump module connected to a first input and a second input to intake air, a sensor module including at least one unit sensor configured to output a sensing signal in response to gas present in the air, and a control module configured to detect the gas using the sensing signal. The control module controls the pump module to intake second air by opening the second input when gas is detected in first air introduced through the first input, and determines that gas is detected when a concentration of gas detected in the second air is lower than a concentration of gas detected in the first air.

Gas-detecting apparatus

The human body sensing device includes a contact sensing unit that includes a sensing electrode and a signal electrode, an activation module that senses a contact with a body through the sensing electrode when the sensing electrode and the signal electrode contact the body and outputs a wake-up signal in response to the sensing of the contact, and a human body communication unit that provides a ground voltage to the signal electrode and outputs a data signal to the signal electrode when the wake-up signal from the activation module is received.

Human body sensing device

Provided are a capsule endoscopic receiving device, a capsule endoscope system including the same, and an operating method of the capsule endoscopic receiving device, the capsule endoscopic receiving device including an analog front end configured to receive a preamble from one receiving electrode pair from among a plurality of receiving electrodes, a valid signal detection circuit configured to compare a reference voltage with input data generated on a basis of a voltage level of the preamble, and a preamble processor configured to select a final electrode pair configured to receive the image data on a basis of a correlation value of the preamble and a comparison result of the input data and the reference voltage. According to the inventive concept, stability of receiving image data may be secured by selecting an optimal receiving electrode pair.

Capsule endoscopic receiving device, capsule endoscope system including the same, and operating method of capsule endoscopic receiving device

Provided are a human body communication device and an operating method of the same. The human body communication device according to an embodiment of the inventive concept includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a transmitting circuit, a receiving circuit, a ground electrode, and a switch. The transmitting circuit generates a first signal in a transmitting mode and transmits the first signal to the first electrode. The receiving circuit receives a second signal from the first electrode in the receiving mode. The receiving circuit includes a differential amplifier that amplifies a difference between a voltage level of a first input terminal depending on the second signal and a voltage level of a second input terminal. The switch electrically connects the second electrode and the ground electrode in the transmitting mode, and electrically connects the second electrode and the second input terminal in the receiving mode.

Human body communication device and operating method of the same

A capsule endoscope image receiver includes a receiving electrode unit that receives first and second differential signals from a capsule endoscope image transmitter through a human body communication channel, an analog amplifying unit that receives the first and second differential signals and outputs first and second amplified differential signals, and a signal restoring unit that receives the first and second amplified differential signals and restores image information. The analog amplifying unit includes a first amplifier that outputs the first amplified differential signal, a second amplifier that outputs the second amplified differential signal, and an input impedance that is connected between a first inverting input terminal of the first amplifier and a second inverting input terminal of the second amplifier and obtains a gain of differential signal amplification in which a high frequency component of the first and second amplified differential signals is greater than a low frequency component.

Capsule endoscope image receiver and capsule endoscope device having the same

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Daejeon, South Korea

Jae-Jin Lee