Newnes guide to television and video technology

This book provides a full and comprehensive coverage of video and television technology including the latest developments in display equipment, HDTV and DVD. Starting with TV fundamentals, the bulk of the book covers the many new technologies that are bringing growth to the TV and video market, such...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ibrahim, K. F. (-)
Otros Autores: Trundle, Eugene
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston, MA : Elsevier 2007.
Edición:4th ed
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. Television fundamentals; Scanning; Interlacing; Synchronisation pulses; Composite video waveform; Common image format; Active lines; Aspect ratio; Pixels and bandwidth; Video bandwidth; Television broadcasting; Modulation; Frequency spectrum, PAL channel; Channel allocation; Frequency spectrum, NTSC channel; Chapter 2. Colour television; Light and colour; The sensation of colour; Primary colours; The colour triangle; Saturation and hue; Chromaticity diagram; Colour temperature; Principles of colour transmission; Frequency interleaving
  • Quadrature amplitude modulationNTSC colour components; NTSC refresh rate; Composite colour signal; Colour burst; The standard colour bar display; Gamma-correction; Weighting factors; PAL colour system; Chapter 3. Digital television; Principles of digital video broadcasting; Digitising the TV picture; SDTV sampling rate; Video sampling; 4:2:2 sampling structure; 4:1:1 sampling structure; 4:2:0 sampling structure; The bit rate; Chapter 4. MPEG encoding; Video MPEG-2 coding; Video data preparation; Temporal compression; Group of pictures; Block matching; Predicted and difference frames
  • Bidirectional predictionSpatial compression; The discrete cosine transform; Quantising the DCT block; Zigzag scanning of the DCT matrix; Coding of DCT coefficients; Buffering; The complete DCT coder; Forward prediction coder-decoder, codec; GOP construction; Chapter 5. High definition television; Why HDTV?; HDTV common interface format; The road to MPEG-4/H.264/AVC; MPEG-4 profiles; H.264/AVC features; Intra-frame (spatial) prediction; Intra-blocks and modes; Size and mode selection; Intra-prediction operation; AVC motion compensation; Motion compensation block sizes; Motion vector prediction
  • New transforms and quantisationAdaptive de-blocking filter; New entropy coding technology; Summarised features of AVC; Chapter 6. Audio encoding; Principles of MPEG-1 audio; MPEG audio basic elements; The full Layer II audio coder; Layer III coding; Pre-echo; Full Layer III audio coder; Advanced audio coding; MPEG-2 AAC; MPEG-4 audio; MPEG-4 AAC; Low-delay AAC; Surround sound; Multi-channel formats; Perception of sounds in space; Chapter 7. MPEG-2 transport stream; Transport stream multiplexing; MPEG-2 PES packet; Time stamps; Program clock reference; Transport stream packet
  • Null transport packetsTransport packet header; Programme-specific information; Transport stream multiplexing; Re-multiplexing; Chapter 8. Channel encoding; Scrambling; Forward error correction; Error correction; FEC processing; Modulation; Phase shift keying; Quadrature amplitude modulation; Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; Single-frequency network; Coded OFDM; 8K/2K COFDM modes; High definition terrestrial television; Satellite channel encoder; Terrestrial channel encoder; Chapter 9. Video re-production; Overview; Display units; The cathode ray tube; Extra high tension
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