Entertainment

Entertainment

The art or field of entertaining, especially that provided by performers.

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trellis coding

Entertainment; Video

Trellis coding is a source coding technique that has resulted in numerous publications and some very effective source codes. Unfortunately, the computational burden of these codes ...

aperture

Entertainment; Video

a) An adjustable opening in a lens which, like the iris in the human eye, controls the amount of light entering a camera. The size of the aperture is controlled by the iris ...

video camera

Entertainment; Video

A camera which contains an electronic image sensor rather than photographic film. The lens focuses an image on an electronic tube or CCD chip. A camera has electronic circuitry ...

arithmetic coding

Entertainment; Video

Perhaps the major drawback to each of the Huffman encoding techniques is their poor performance when processing texts where one symbol has a probability of occurrence approaching ...

video editing

Entertainment; Video

A procedure for combining selected portions of video footage in order to create a new, combined version. A variety of editing consoles are available. During video editing, special ...

aspect ratio

Entertainment; Video

The ratio of the width of the picture to the height. For most current TVs, this ratio is 4:3. For HDTV, the ratio will be 16:9. The aspect ratio, along with the number of vertical ...

video gain

Entertainment; Video

The nominal composite video signal level is 1 volt. At this level, a fully saturated image is transmitted and boosting the signal offers no advantage. Most video equipment is ...