Color Television

The NTSC Color Television Standards

When a conventional black-and-white receiver is tuned to transmissions conforming to the NTSC color standards the receiver responds fully to the first signal (the “brightness signal”) and recreates from it an image in black-and-white having a quality equal (or superior) to that provided by present black-and-white standards. Because of the nature of the chromatic signal, no normally perceptible ...

Color Television Possibilities for the Post War Era

Modeling Television Schedules for Television Stream Structuring

TV stream structuring is very important for huge archives holders like the French National Institute, the BBC or the RAI, because it is the first necessary step to describe the various telecasts broadcast on various channels. It is also necessary for television ratings in order to isolate the telecasts that must be rated. One can think this structuring is a simple alignment of the TV guides on ...

New Color Correction Method of Multi-view Images for View Rendering in Free-viewpoint Television

Color inconsistency between views is an important problem to be solved in multi-view video imaging application, such as free viewpoint television. Up to now, some color correction methods have been proposed mainly for consistent color appearance or high coding efficiency, in which the mean, variance, or covariance information are used to transfer color information. In this paper, by using color...

Customized television: standards compliant advanced digital television

This correspondence describes a European Union supported collaborative project called CustomTV based on the premise that future TV sets will provide all sorts of multimedia information and interactivity, as well as manage all such services according to each user’s or group of user’s preferences/profiles. We have demonstrated the potential of recent standards (MPEG-4 and MPEG-7) to implement suc...