Video Demystified
- 3rd Edition - March 1, 2001
- Imprint: Newnes
- Author: Keith Jack
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 8 7 8 7 0 7 - 5 6 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 5 4 5 8 2 - 0
Master video system design with the NEW THIRD EDITION of this essential reference! This book is the "bible" for digital video hardware engineers and programmers worldwide, as it… Read more
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Request a sales quoteMaster video system design with the NEW THIRD EDITION of this essential reference! This book is the "bible" for digital video hardware engineers and programmers worldwide, as it contains detailed video information difficult to find elsewhere. The third edition has been completely updated with new chapters on analog and digital video interfaces, H.261 and H.263, consumer DV, and DTV. This is by far the most informative analog and digital video reference available. If you work with video, you need this reference on your shelf!
Keith Jack has designed more than 25 video and multimedia integrated circuits for such companies as Brooktree and Harris Corporation. He was the designer of the world's first single-chip NTSC/PAL digital encoder/decoder and holds two video processing patents. He is currently director of product marketing for Sigma Designs.
Keith Jack has designed more than 25 video and multimedia integrated circuits for such companies as Brooktree and Harris Corporation. He was the designer of the world's first single-chip NTSC/PAL digital encoder/decoder and holds two video processing patents. He is currently director of product marketing for Sigma Designs.
* Provides international coverage by including European, Asian, and North/South American video standards, methods, and techniques* Contains expanded coverage of digital video processing technologies, video compression, digital video interfaces, and the MPEG1 and MPEG2 standards* Includes two CDs which provide video test files for MPEG1, MPEG2, H261, and H263 and an electronic version of the book
Hardware and software engineers working on projects involving the capture, storage, processing, manipulation, and/or transmission of video in digital form.
Preface; INTRODUCTION TO VIDEO: video data; resolution; compression; video applications; COLOR SPACES: RGB,YUV, YIQ, YcbCr, PhotoYCC, HIS, HLS, and HSV; chromaticity; non-RGB space considerations; gamma correction; VIDEO SIGNALS OVERVIEW: 480-line and 525-line systems; 576-line and 625-line systems; 720-line and 750-line systems; 1080-line and 1125-line systems; ANALOG VIDEO INTERFACES: S-Video; SCART; SDTV RGB interface; HDTV interface; DIGITAL VIDEO INTERFACES: ancillary data; EIA-608/EIA-708 formats; error detection; SDTV; HDTV; Pro-Video; component interfaces; gigabit video interface (GVI); consumer transport interfaces; DIGITAL VIDEO PROCESSING: SDTV-HDTV YcbCr transforms; 4:4:4 to 4:2:2 YcbrCr conversion; display enhancement; luma and chroma keying; scaling; scan rate conversion; interlaced/non-interlaced conversion; NTSC, PAL, AND SECAM OVERVIEW: NTSC overview; PAL overview; SECAM overview; video test signals; VBI data; closed captioning; NTSC AND PAL DIGITAL ENCODING AND DECODING: oversampling; color difference processing; horizontal and vertical timing; genlocking; Y/C separation techniques; alpha channel support; color space conversion; H.261 AND H.263: coding algorithms; video bitstreaming; optional modes; CONSUMER DV: IEC 61834; SMPTE 314M; AAUX; VAUX; IEEE 1394; SDTI; MPEG1: audio and video overviews; decoding; MPEG2: audio and video overviews; levels, profiles, and scalability; bitstreaming; encoding and decoding; descriptors; synchronization; DIGITAL TELEVISION: ATSC; program and system information protocol (PSIP); DVB; transmission formats; Index
- Edition: 3
- Published: March 1, 2001
- Imprint: Newnes
- No. of pages: 784
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9781878707567
- eBook ISBN: 9780080545820
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Keith Jack
Keith Jack is Director of Product Marketing at Sigma Designs. Sigma Designs develops and markets high-performance, highly-integrated System-on-a-Chip (SoC) semiconductors for IPTV Set-top Boxes, Blu-ray and HD DVD Players/Recorders, HDTVs, Digital Media Adapters, and Portable Media Players. Prior to joining Sigma Designs, Mr. Jack held various marketing and chip design positions at Harris Semiconductor, Brooktree, and Rockwell International. He has been involved in over 40 multimedia chips for the consumer market.
Affiliations and expertise
Director of Product Marketing, Sigma Designs, Fremont, CA, USA