20 Terms
Contributors in Video
Video
Commission Internationale de l’Eclairage (CIE)
Entertainment; Video
An international standardization organization that created the chromaticity diagrams (color charts) used to define the colorimetry of all television systems. The CIE is concerned with methods of ...
cycle
Entertainment; Video
An alternation of a waveform which begins at a point, passes through the zero line and ends at a point with the same value and moving in the same direction as the starting point.
backward compatibility
Entertainment; Video
A new coding standard is backward compatible with an existing coding standard if existing decoders (designed to operate with the existing coding standard) are able to continue to operate by decoding ...
chrominance signal
Entertainment; Video
The high-frequency portion of the video signal which is obtained by quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) of a 4.43 MHz (PAL) or 3.579545 MHz (NTSC) subcarrier with R-Y and B-Y information.
backward motion vector
Entertainment; Video
A motion vector that is used for motion compensation from a reference picture at a later time in display order.
