Video Demystified

Keith Jack is currently director of product marketing at Sigma Designs. He has been the architect for numerous multimedia ICs for the PC and consumer markets, including the world's first single-chip NTSC/PAL digital encoder/decoder (for Brooktree Corporation). He holds two patents for video processing

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