{"title":"Active RFID tag drive using thermoelectric conversion element","authors":"Ryosuke Saeki, J. Yoshino, M. Inoue","doi":"10.1109/GCCE.2013.6664821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GCCE.2013.6664821","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes active RFID tag drive by a thermoelectric conversion element by using temperature difference between outside air and human skin. In recent years, energy harvesting techniques have been attracting attention. Powers saving sensors driven by energy harvesting techniques are expected to eliminate maintenance such as battery replacement. Therefore, in this study, the active RFID tags were driven by the thermoelectric conversion elements by using temperature difference. Furthermore, the performance of the thermoelectric conversion elements was evaluated and compared to commercial Lithium battery. As a result, active RFID tag driven by the thermoelectric conversion element has proved to have the same performance as active RFID tag driven by Lithium battery. Therefore, it was confirmed that the driving of the active RFID tag using a thermoelectric conversion element is feasible.","PeriodicalId":294532,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 2nd Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127011909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Safe microcontrollers with error protection encoder-decoder using bit-inversion techniques for on-chip flash integrity verification","authors":"Daejin Park, T. Kim","doi":"10.1109/GCCE.2013.6664833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GCCE.2013.6664833","url":null,"abstract":"The code memory integrity of embedded NOR flash memory in the microcontrollers is becoming important for applications requiring safety-critical operations like automotive ICs. Software-driven or hardware supports for the memory protection are required to guarantee the safe-conscious code execution of the downloaded firmware in microcontrollers. The protection method requires more power consumption in the ECC decoding for the code-words. In this paper, the protection hardware in the read-path of the embedded NOR flash memory in the microcontrollers chip is proposed to improve the power consumption with a small amount of logic gates overhead. The conventional error correction code (ECC) hardware data path is integrated with our newly-designed binary bit-inversion decoder with zero overhead inversion flags to decrease the power consumption in decoding the binary code blocks. The 1 bits error correction using 8 bits ECC parity code per 64 bits code blocks (72:64 SEC-DED) are applied to 64KB embedded NOR flash memory with the separated region of the flash memory for error correction padding bits.","PeriodicalId":294532,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 2nd Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE)","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127645306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Yashiro, Shinsuke Kobayashi, N. Koshizuka, K. Sakamura
{"title":"A software HEMS framework for consumer electronics","authors":"T. Yashiro, Shinsuke Kobayashi, N. Koshizuka, K. Sakamura","doi":"10.1109/GCCE.2013.6664806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GCCE.2013.6664806","url":null,"abstract":"The importance of HEMS (home energy management system) has been increasing rapidly due to the global energy problem becoming more significant. Although many of the HEMS have been proposed so far, they are seldom accepted in real residents because of the high cost for providing this service. In order to solve this problem, we propose a software HEMS framework which is totally different from existing solutions in that they do not require any additional hardware. Instead of adding meters to household appliances, we add software on embedded systems that estimates how much electricity is consumed from operating system kernel and device driver information. We have implemented this system on T-Kernel, and the evaluation results showed that our framework can be effectively used to implement HEMS without any additional hardware cost.","PeriodicalId":294532,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 2nd Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132348279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jing-Ying Hsu, Chih-Hong Chu, Shu-Chen Li, Jie-Ci Yang
{"title":"Face recognition via statistical codebook modeling and matching","authors":"Jing-Ying Hsu, Chih-Hong Chu, Shu-Chen Li, Jie-Ci Yang","doi":"10.1109/GCCE.2013.6664928","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GCCE.2013.6664928","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a novel face recognition method to reduce the influence form varying face postures while maintaining high computational efficiency. Via building a codebook of an ASM face model and adopting the Mann-Whitney U-test matching method, the input face can be compared with the database much efficiently and effectively. Experimental results show that the proposed method has better recognition result and less computational complexity, and is competitive and practical for implementing into the smart equipments.","PeriodicalId":294532,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 2nd Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE)","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134557947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daigo Suzuki, Yoshinari Takegawa, T. Terada, M. Tsukamoto
{"title":"A heart rate presentation system for keeping music tempo in live performance","authors":"Daigo Suzuki, Yoshinari Takegawa, T. Terada, M. Tsukamoto","doi":"10.1109/GCCE.2013.6664791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GCCE.2013.6664791","url":null,"abstract":"It is important for musicians to show their true ability in live performance. However many musicians make mistakes, such as a keystroke error or a fingering error, because their music tempo in live performance is different from that in daily practice. It is difficult to calm the mind and overcome feelings such as nervousness and excitement in live performance. Our preliminary evaluation showed that music tempo is related to the heart rate (HR) of a musician. If the musician notices his/her own mental condition, he/she tries to alter their performance. For example, a musician tries to play in slower tempo in live performance than in daily practice, when he/she knows that his/her HR in live performance is higher than in daily practice. Therefore, the goal of our study is to design and implement a heart rate presentation system for keeping music tempo in live performance. The proposed system shows a musician his/her heart rate from daily practice and his/her current heart rate before his/her performance. We have developed a prototype system, and evaluated its effectiveness through actual use of the prototype system. We found that it had advantages over comparative methods.","PeriodicalId":294532,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 2nd Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131077623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decoupling dynamic resource management functions from RTOS for heterogeneous multi-core systems","authors":"S. Oikawa","doi":"10.1109/GCCE.2013.6664825","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GCCE.2013.6664825","url":null,"abstract":"The complexity of consumer electronics devices have them employ more powerful processors as their processing load becomes higher; thus, their higher power consumption becomes a critical problem. In order to balance processing power and electrical power consumption, heterogeneous multi-core processors are becoming popular. This paper proposes an extensible RTOS (real-time operating system) architecture for such heterogeneous multi-core processors, which consist of processors with different processing power and functionalities. The architecture splits the RTOS kernel into the two components, the proxy kernel (PK) and user-level kernel (UK), and decouples dynamic resource management functions from the PK. Such architecture enables the PK to run on a less powerful core while RTOS can utilize dynamic resource management functions provided by the UK. The experiment results running micro benchmark programs show the feasibility of the proposed architecture.","PeriodicalId":294532,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 2nd Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE)","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133511921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluation of relationship between network performance and Web usability considering the hierarchical structure of the QoS with path analysis","authors":"Yosuke Nomura, Yoshihiro Ito","doi":"10.1109/GCCE.2013.6664908","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GCCE.2013.6664908","url":null,"abstract":"As web services run on the Internet, the deterioration communication quality on the Internet has a great influence on Web usability. The communication quality(QoS) has a hierarchical structure because the Internet architecture is also hierarchical. This paper studies the relationship between multiple communication quality evaluations between layers, including quality of experience. In order to do so, we propose the evaluation method by using path analysis to evaluate the effects on Web usability. The experimental results show that satisfaction, one of the scales for Web usability, has a strong relationship with the number of packet retransmission per unit time in TCP layer and it was influenced by packetloss in IP layer indirectly. As a consequence, we confirmed the effectiveness of the evaluation method by using path analysis.","PeriodicalId":294532,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 2nd Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE)","volume":"133 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132384979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sungyoung Kim, Doyuen Ko, W. Woszczyk, Hiraku Okumura
{"title":"Rendering an immersive sound field using a virtual height loudspeaker: Effect of height-related room impulse responses","authors":"Sungyoung Kim, Doyuen Ko, W. Woszczyk, Hiraku Okumura","doi":"10.1109/GCCE.2013.6664776","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GCCE.2013.6664776","url":null,"abstract":"In order to provide consumers more enhanced and immersive experience in sound, most of the new multichannel reproduction formats highlight the significance of height-related information. In this paper, we investigated the influence of height-related room impulse responses when reproduced via various “height-loudspeakers,” including a virtual loudspeaker. Test participants listened to the corresponding sound fields and rated their perceived quality in terms of spaciousness and integrity. The results showed that perceived quality was affected by height loudspeaker positions and height signals, which was a specific room impulse response coupled with a virtual loudspeaker rendering process.","PeriodicalId":294532,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 2nd Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127419292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A learning support system for 9 × 9 multiplication table with Kinect","authors":"Noriko Akazawa, Yukiko Takei, Yasuichi Nakayama, Hiroyasu Kakuda, Mitsugu Suzuki","doi":"10.1109/GCCE.2013.6664816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GCCE.2013.6664816","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a learning support system for the 9 × 9 multiplication table “KuKu” and have implemented it using Kinect motion capture to recognize “air characters” written by the body actions of KuKu learners. We explain how to implement the system, report the results of a trial with elementary school students, and suggest the future directions of the system.","PeriodicalId":294532,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 2nd Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE)","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114696363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A wideband antenna with fan-shaped and trapezoidal elements on printed circuit board for ultra wideband radio","authors":"Kazuya Hiraguri, F. Koshiji, K. Koshiji","doi":"10.1109/GCCE.2013.6664820","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GCCE.2013.6664820","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a half-sized unbalanced dipole antenna with fan-shaped and trapezoidal radiators on a printed circuit board was proposed. The VSWR and radiation patterns of the proposed antenna were investigated. As a result, the VSWR characteristics less than 2.0 and relative bandwidth of 110% over the frequency band of 3.1 GHz to 10.8 GHz from the experiments were obtained from a measurement. As the radiation patterns, the similar radiation patterns with an usual dipole antenna such as eight-shape and omni-directional radiation patterns were obtained at 3.1 GHz. Although the radiation patterns at 6.8 GHz and 10.6 GHz were slightly distorted compared with those of the usual dipole antennas, it is acceptable in practical use because the orientation of mobile devices in which the antenna could be built may change frequently, depending on how a user uses the devices.","PeriodicalId":294532,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 2nd Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116865659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}