Digital Video and HD: Algorithms and Interfaces (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics)

Poynton, Charles

ISBN 10: 1558607927 / ISBN 13: 9781558607927

Editore: Morgan Kaufmann, 2002

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• Titolo: Digital Video and HD: Algorithms and Interfaces (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics)
• Editore: Morgan Kaufmann
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1558607927
• ISBN 13: 9781558607927
• Rilegatura: hardcover
• Condizione: Good
• Peso: 50 once

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Riassunto

Rapidly evolving computer and communications technologies have achieved data transmission rates and data storage capacities high enough for digital video. But video involves much more than just pushing bits! Achieving the best possible image quality, accurate color, and smooth motion requires understanding many aspects of image acquisition, coding, processing, and display that are outside the usual realm of computer graphics. At the same time, video system designers are facing new demands to interface with film and computer system that require techniques outside conventional video engineering.

Charles Poynton's 1996 book A Technical Introduction to Digital Video became an industry favorite for its succinct, accurate, and accessible treatment of standard definition television (SDTV). In Digital Video and HDTV, Poynton augments that book with coverage of high definition television (HDTV) and compression systems.

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With the help of hundreds of high quality technical illustrations, this book presents the following topics:

* Basic concepts of digitization, sampling, quantization, gamma, and filtering
* Principles of color science as applied to image capture and display
* Scanning and coding of SDTV and HDTV
* Video color coding: luma, chroma (4:2:2 component video, 4fSC composite video)
* Analog NTSC and PAL
* Studio systems and interfaces
* Compression technology, including M-JPEG and MPEG-2
* Broadcast standards and consumer video equipment

Informazioni sull?autore

Charles Poynton is an independent contractor specializing in the physics, mathematics, and engineering of digital color imaging systems, including digital video, HDTV, and digital cinema (D-cinema). In the early 1980s, Charles designed and built the digital video equipment used by NASA to convert video from the Space Shuttle into NTSC. In 1990, he initiated Sun Microsystems' HDTV research project, and introduced color management technology to Sun. He was responsible for Sun's founding membership in what later became the International Color Consortium (ICC). Charles was a key contributor to current digital video and HDTV studio standards. A Fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), he was awarded the Society's prestigious David Sarnoff Gold Medal for his work to integrate video technology with computing and communications. Charles has taught many popular courses on video technology, HDTV, and color image coding, including many SIGGRAPH courses. He is the author of the widely respected book, A Technical Introduction to Digital Video, published in 1996. Charles lives in Toronto with his partner Barbara and their two girls, Quinn and Georgia. It is over their strenuous objections that he spells color without the u.