Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

Telecommunication & Electronics Inc.

Min Gun Kim

Jae Jin Lee

Kwang Eui Pyun

Chang Seok Lee

Sung Weon Kang

Chung Hwan Kim

Eung Gie Oh

Choong Hwan Kim

Ingab Hwang

The present invention relates to a drowsiness detection method. A heartbeat signal and a breathing signal are detected by exploiting together a scheme and an optical system scheme. The detected signals are applied to respective amplification units, noise signals are eliminated from the detected signals, and noise-free signals are amplified. The amplified signals are applied to a central processing unit, signal processing is processed on the signals, and processed signals are combined. The combined signal is counted, and a warning sound, voice message or vibration is output in a case where a value, obtained by subtracting a counted output value monitored one minute before a current time, from a counted output value monitored two minutes before the current time, falls within a detection range and where, with a passage of time, the value falling within the detection range is successively detected from two to ten times.

System and method for detecting sleepiness

A microwave frequency converting receiver of an RF unit should be generally used in wireless/mobile communications systems such as cellular, PCS, WLL and IMT2000 systems and also have low power consumption, low-noise characteristic, high gain and small size. In order to produce the above frequency converting receiver, a multi-band and multi-mode frequency converting receiver for use in a wireless mobile communications system comprises a wideband low-noise amplifier for amplifying a radio frequency input signal, a frequency mixer for generating an intermediate frequency signal having a relatively high linearity by mixing a local oscillator frequency signal and the amplified radio frequency signal outputted from the wideband low noise amplifier, an intermediate frequency amplifier for producing a final intermediate frequency signal by amplifying the intermediate frequency signal derived from the frequency mixer and an input matching circuit for receiving a microwave signal within a frequency band of the wireless mobile communications system, impedance-matching the received microwave signal to the radio frequency input signal of the wideband low-noise amplifier and determining an operating frequency band of the frequency converting receiver.

Microwave frequency converting receiver

The present invention relates to a bias stabilization circuit, specifically to a bias stabilization circuit for minimizing the current variations of amplification transistors caused by variations of device parameters which occur during the manufacturing of high-frequency integrated circuits using field-effect transistors, and caused by variations of supply voltage and temperature. In the present invention, the above problem is solved by configuring a level shifter circuit between the drain node and the gate node of the reference voltage generation transistor. Further, by using a constant current source utilizing a depletion transistor and series feedback resistors as a reference current, this circuit becomes stable against the variations of the device parameters as well as the variations of the temperature and supply voltage.

Bias stabilization circuit

The present invention relates to a gain controlled amplifier, and more particularly, to a gain controlled amplifier using active feedback and variable resistance. It is an object of the present invention to provide a gain controlled amplifier minimizing the gain and the degradation of power characteristics generated when adjusting gain in a variable gain amplifier which receives signals having different power levels, amplifies them in accordance with each power level and outputs output signals in a constant power level. In order to achieve the above object, a gain controlled amplifier in accordance with the present invention comprises an amplifier and an active feedback means for negative feedbacking the output of the amplifier to the input of the amplifier, and further has a feedback amount controller inputting the controlled feedback signal to the amplifier by controlling the feedback amount of said active feedback means.

Gain controlled amplifier

The present invention relates to an equivalent circuit of a package ground terminal paddle which is used to mount a microwave integrated circuit, and more particularly, to an approximate equivalent circuit of the package ground terminal paddle by which the expressions of parasitic components can be easily expanded according to the number of gold wires that are down-bonded to the paddle, by introducing an equivalent circuit structure which takes the impedance component output from each terminal as one common impedance component and grounds the common impedance.

Equivalent circuit of package ground terminal paddle

A method for correcting a high frequency measurement error which can exactly correct the high frequency measurement error even with the use of a standard devices of which characteristic have not been verified by calculating the characteristic impedance of the correction device from the characteristics of an auxiliary measuring device calculated by using a general error correction method, and calculating again the once calculated characteristics of the auxiliary measuring device. The method in accordance with the present invention comprises the steps of modelling an auxiliary measuring device used for measuring a high frequency charateristics of the device under test by two transmission lines connected in series between two terminals and a parasitic component connected in parallel between a junction of the two transmission lines and a ground; and moving a reference measurement point to the junction of the two transmission lines by using a phase angle of each transmission line and calculating a reference impedance at the terminal of the auxiliary measuring device to which an object to be measured is connected by using the difference of the resultant reflection coefficients of each port.

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Min Gun Kim