Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

I-sens, Inc.

Tae Young Kang

Kyung Hwan Park

Sung Weon Kang

In Gi Lim

Jung Bum Kim

Byoung Gun Choi

Tae Wook Kang

Jung Hwan Hwang

Chang Hee Hyoung

Sung Eun Kim

Kyung Soo Kim

Seok Bong Hyun

Hyung Il Park

Jin Kyung Kim

Hakhyun Nam

Geun Sig Cha

Hyung-Il Park

Hey Jin Myoung

Heejun Lee

Seong Su Park

Jeonghan Ha

Jungwon Shin

Kyung-Soo Kim

Youn Tae Kim

Jae Hoon Shim

Sung-Eun Kim

Jin-Kyung Kim

Ki Hyuk Park

Kyungsoo Kim

Sung Hyuk Choi

Jae Seon Lee

Young Jae Kang

Hyung Ii Park

Dong Kwon Lee

Provided are an energy harvesting device capable of generating electric energy by effectively obtaining an electromagnetic wave emitted from an indoor lighting device and a power control system of a lighting device capable of performing self-power generation by using the energy harvesting device as a power source. The energy harvesting device using an electromagnetic wave according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes: an interface unit made of a conductive material and configured to capture a conductive interference signal transferred through a conductive member of a lighting device; and a rectifier circuit unit configured to rectify the captured conductive interference signal to convert the rectified conductive interference signal to direct current power.

Energy harvesting device using electromagnetic interference signal and sensor system including the same

The present invention relates to a cell for optical analysis, wherein a flow space of a low depth is formed by attachment, using a simple double-coated tape without out special processing, of a micro flow channel through which a liquid sample passes, thereby enabling: a very easy manufacturing method; a reduction of manufacturing costs, thereby allowing the cell to be more widely used; a maintenance of a short path length of light with respect to the flow space in which the liquid sample flows, thereby enabling accurate optical analysis without diluting a sample with high absorbance; an expansion of a flow space region along the plane vertical to the light-passing direction, thereby enabling smoother optical analysis and improving the accuracy of optical analysis.

Detection cell for optical analysis of liquid sample

A cartridge for an apparatus for analyzing blood chemistry includes an apparatus frame having a compartment; a cartridge that is inserted into the compartment of the apparatus frame and includes a sensor card, a solution valve unit, and a blood introducing unit; a controller that receives a signal generated from the sensor card and processes the signal; a lever for the blood introducing unit connected to the apparatus frame; a power transmitting unit that is provided to the apparatus frame and transmits power of the lever for the blood introducing unit to open/close the blood introducing unit of the cartridge; a solution transporting unit that is provided to the apparatus frame and transports the solutions; and a driving unit that actuates the solution valve unit of the cartridge by the controller and opens or closes the tubing flowing of the solutions.

Cartridge for apparatus for chemically analyzing blood and apparatus using the same

Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for amplitude modulation of a spread signal that can increase a data transmission rate and frequency use efficiency by loading information on the amplitude of the spread signal used in digital communications. A method for amplitude modulation of a spread signal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes: receiving a first data signal; generating a spread signal by applying a spreading code to the first data signal; receiving a second data signal; and outputting the spread signal at an amplitude corresponding to a value of the second data signal.

Method and apparatus for amplitude modulation of spread signal

A receiver in a human communication system includes: receiving electrodes including a transmission frame including control frames and data frames; first and second switches connected with the receiving electrodes; a switching control unit controlling a switching of the first and second switches to selectively connect the receiving electrodes with the first and second switches in response to each control frame according to a predetermined rule every time each of the control frames is input; a signal processing unit performing signal processing on the transmission frame output from the first and second switches; a preamble detection unit detecting the first preamble from each of the control frames included in the signal-processed transmission frame to generate preamble correlation values for the first preamble; and a correlation value processing unit controlling the switching control unit to select pairs of final receiving electrodes among the receiving electrodes based on the preamble correlation values.

Transmitter, receiver and method thereof in human body communication system

Disclosed are a telematics system using human body communication, a portable device having a telematics function using human body communication, and a method for providing a telematics service using human body communication. The telematics system using human body communication includes: a vehicle receiving an authentication key from at least one portable device through human body communication using a human body as a medium, and controlling the opening and closing of a door of the vehicle based on whether or not the received authentication key is valid; and a first portable device transmitting a first authentication key through a user's body in contact with the vehicle.

Telematics system using human body communication, portable device having telematics function using human body communication, and method for providing telematics service using human body communication

A frequency selective modulation apparatus and method using re-spreading codes are disclosed. The frequency selective modulation apparatus includes: a serial-to-parallel converter receiving transmission data and performing serial-to-parallel conversion on the transmission data at a pre-set ratio; one or more sub-frequency selective spreaders selecting one spreading code by using data bits received from the serial-to-parallel converter; a majority value selection unit selecting a majority value from one or more spreading codes which have been selected by each of the one or more of the sub-frequency selective spreaders; and a first XOR logic circuit XORing an output of the majority value selection unit and a re-spreading code Wn to re-spread a frequency selective baseband to a frequency selective passband.

Frequency selective modulating apparatus and method using re-spreading code

A walking guidance apparatus using human body communication, including: a first human body communication device acquiring a walking guidance information signal, converting the acquired walking guidance information signal into a signal available for human body communication, and transmitting the converted signal through a user's body; and a second human body communication device receiving the signal transmitted through the user's body from the first human body communication device, converting the received signal into a signal that can be recognized by the user, and outputting the converted signal. Walking guidance information having a high privacy function and high stability and accuracy can be provided to enhance user convenience.

Walking guidance apparatus using human body communication

An electronic apparatus having a control function using human body communication includes: a first control unit reading control data and performing a control to provide the read control data; a first human body communication unit converting the control data into a signal, which is transmittable through human body communication, according to a control signal outputted from the first control unit; an electrode installed in an outer housing of the electronic apparatus and transmitting the signal provided from the first human body communication unit to a user's body which comes into contact with the electronic apparatus; and a first storage unit storing the control data.

Electronic apparatus having control function using human body communication and portable terminal having electronic apparatus control function using human body communication

There are provided a human body sound transmission system and a method. The human body sound transmission system according to an aspect of the present invention directly or indirectly contacts a human body to apply coupled signals of high frequency sound signals with high frequency signals, which recover sound signals from the high frequency sound signals, to the human body and transmit the sound signals using the human body as a transmission medium, wherein a magnitude of the sound signals recovered around a human's ear is increased in proportion to the number of signals transmitted through the human body by transmitting the plurality of signals including the same sound signals through the human body.

Human body sound transmission system and method for transmitting a plurality of signals

Disclosed are a crime prevention system using human body communication and a crime prevention method using human body communication capable of actively and effectively preventing a generation of a crime by using human body communication. The crime prevention system using human body communication includes: a monitoring device attached to a monitoring target to sense his physical contact with an observer and providing information obtained by monitoring the monitoring target through human body communication when body contact of the monitoring target with the observer is sensed; and a reception device attached to the observer, receiving the monitoring information through human body communication, and transmitting the monitoring information to a pre-set destination. A criminal act of the monitoring target may be prevented in advance, and when a criminal act is attempted, an observer who may fall a victim of the criminal act can actively cope with the situation.

Crime prevention system using human body communication and crime prevention method using human body communication

The present invention provides a solution bag that is used for medical treatment and stores solution used for an apparatus for analyzing blood chemistry that measures and analyzes the concentrations of electrolytes, the partial pressures of gases, and the concentrations of metabolites or the volume ratio of red blood cells contained in blood. The solution bag for an apparatus for analyzing blood chemistry of the present invention includes: a receptacle that contains a solution; a valve body that is attached to the receptacle and has a through-hole longitudinally formed therein; a valve spool that is disposed in the through-hole of the valve body; and a solution leakage preventing unit that is disposed in the valve spool, in which the valve body has a flow channel and a solution discharging pipe spaced at a predetermined distance from each other.

Solution bag for apparatus for chemically analyzing blood

A human body sound transmission apparatus and method for minimizing a signal loss are disclosed. The human body sound transmission apparatus includes: an audio signal transmission unit modulating an audio signal desired to be transmitted, and transmitting the modulated audio signal to the vicinity of a user's ear through the human body (i.e., a user's body); and a carrier wave signal transmission unit transmitting a carrier wave signal for demodulating the modulated audio signal to the vicinity of the user's ear through the air.

Human body sound transmission apparatus and method for minimizing signal loss

A frequency selective digital transmission apparatus includes: a preamble transmission processing unit generating a preamble for frame synchronization and spreading the generated preamble with a predetermined spreading code; a header transmission processing unit configuring a header including data attribute information and spreading the header with a predetermined spreading code; a data transmission processing unit performing serial-to-parallel conversion on transmission data according to a selected transmission mode and a spreading scheme and spreading the same with a frequency selective spreading code; and a multiplexing unit multiplexing the preamble, the header, and the data which have been spread by the preamble transmission processing unit, the header transmission processing unit and the data transmission processing unit, respectively, and transmitting the same as digital signals.

Frequency selective digital transmission apparatus

The present invention relates to a powerless electronic notepad and a powerless wireless transmission system using the same, and more particularly, to a powerless electronic notepad that stores data recorded on an electronic notepad using piezoelectric elements and transmits the stored data using a passive RFID tag without the use of a power source, and a powerless wireless transmission system using the same.

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Seoul, South Korea

Tae Young Kang