- Cover
- Half Title
- Dedication
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Introduction to convergent systems
- 1.1 What this book is about
- 1.2 Why binary?
- 1.3 Conversion
- 1.4 Integrated circuits
- 1.5 Storage technology
- 1.6 Noise and probability
- 1.7 Time compression and expansion
- 1.8 Error correction and concealment
- 1.9 Channel coding
- 1.10 Compression, JPEG and MPEG
- 1.11 Convergence and commercial television
- 1.12 Electronic cinema
- References
- Chapter 2 Digital processing principles
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Logic elements
- 2.3 Storage elements
- 2.4 Binary coding
- 2.5 Gain control
- 2.6 Floating-point coding
- 2.7 Modulo-n arithmetic
- 2.8 The Galois field
- 2.9 The phase-locked loop
- 2.10 Timebase correction
- 2.11 Programmers
- 2.12 The computer
- 2.13 The processor
- 2.14 Interrupts
- 2.15 Programmable timers
- 2.16 Memory management
- 2.17 The human interface
- 2.18 DSP
- 2.19 Multiplexing principles
- 2.20 Packets
- 2.21 Statistical multiplexing
- 2.22 Networks
- Chapter 3 Filters and transforms
- Chapter 4 Sampling
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Sampling
- 4.3 Reconstruction
- 4.4 Aperture effect
- 4.5 Sampling clock jitter
- 4.6 Quantizing
- 4.7 Quantizing error
- 4.8 Introduction to dither
- 4.9 Requantizing and digital dither
- 4.10 Dither techniques
- 4.11 Basic digital-to-analog conversion
- 4.12 Basic analog-to-digital conversion
- References
- Chapter 5 Sound
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 The deciBel
- 5.3 Audio level metering
- 5.4 The ear
- 5.5 Level and loudness
- 5.6 Frequency discrimination
- 5.7 Music and the ear
- 5.8 The physics of sound
- 5.9 How sound is radiated
- 5.10 Acoustics
- 5.11 Directionality in hearing
- 5.12 Microphone principles
- 5.13 Microphone mechanisms
- 5.14 Stereo and surround sound
- 5.15 Stereo and surround microphones
- 5.16 M–S stereo
- 5.17 Digitizing audio
- 5.18 Audio convertors
- 5.19 Oversampling in audio
- 5.20 Noise shaping
- References
- Chapter 6 Light
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 What is light?
- 6.3 Sources of light
- 6.4 Optical principles
- 6.5 Photometric units
- 6.6 MTF, contrast and sharpness
- 6.7 The human visual system
- 6.8 The eye
- 6.9 Gamma
- 6.10 Motion portrayal and dynamic resolution
- 6.11 Background strobing and frame rate
- 6.12 Colour
- 6.13 Colour vision
- 6.14 Colorimetry
- 6.15 The CIE chromaticity diagram
- 6.16 Whites
- 6.17 Colour matching functions
- 6.18 Choice of primaries
- References
- Chapter 7 Image portrayal
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Film
- 7.3 Spatial sampling
- 7.4 Spatial aperture effect
- 7.5 Spatial oversampling
- 7.6 Temporal aperture effects
- 7.7 Analog video
- 7.8 Synchronizing
- 7.9 Bandwidth and definition
- 7.10 Interlace
- 7.11 Colour television
- 7.12 Constant luminance
- 7.13 Analog colour television signals
- 7.14 Digital colour signals
- 7.15 Digital colour space
- 7.16 Telecine
- 7.17 Conversion between television and computer formats
- 7.18 The importance of motion compensation
- 7.19 Motion-estimation techniques
- 7.20 Motion-compensated picture rate conversion
- 7.21 Motion-compensated telecine system
- 7.22 Camera shake compensation
- 7.23 Motion-compensated de-interlacing
- 7.24 Aspect ratios
- References
- Chapter 8 Presentation
- 8.1 Display principles
- 8.2 The monochrome CRT
- 8.3 The colour CRT
- 8.4 The projection CRT
- 8.5 Plasma displays
- 8.6 Scanning lasers
- 8.7 Micromirror projectors
- 8.8 Temporal effects
- 8.9 Display processors
- 8.10 Optical filtering
- 8.11 Loudspeaker principles
- 8.12 Loudspeaker mechanisms
- 8.13 Directivity
- 8.14 The moving-coil speaker
- 8.15 Low-frequency reproduction
- 8.16 Crossover networks
- 8.17 Enclosures
- 8.18 Active loudspeakers
- 8.19 Loudspeaker criteria for stereo and surround sound
- References
- Chapter 9 Compression
- 9.1 Introduction to compression
- 9.2 Compression standards
- 9.3 Profiles, levels and layers
- 9.4 Spatial and temporal redundancy in MPEG
- 9.5 I and P coding
- 9.6 Bidirectional coding
- 9.7 Coding applications
- 9.8 Spatial compression
- 9.9 Scanning and run-length/variable-length coding
- 9.10 A bidirectional coder
- 9.11 Slices
- 9.12 Handling interlaced pictures
- 9.13 An MPEG-2 coder
- 9.14 The elementary stream
- 9.15 An MPEG-2 decoder
- 9.16 Coding artifacts
- 9.17 Processing MPEG-2 and concatenation
- 9.18 Audio compression
- 9.19 Sound quality measurement
- 9.20 Audio compression tools
- 9.21 Sub-band coding
- 9.22 Compression formats
- 9.23 MPEG Audio compression
- 9.24 MPEG Layer I
- 9.25 MPEG Layer II
- 9.26 MPEG Layer III
- 9.27 MPEG-2 AAC
- 9.28 Dolby AC-3
- References
- Chapter 10 Digital coding principles
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Types of transmission channel
- 10.3 Transmission lines
- 10.4 Types of recording medium
- 10.5 Magnetic recording
- 10.6 Azimuth recording and rotary heads
- 10.7 Optical and magneto-optical disks
- 10.8 Equalization and data separation
- 10.9 Slicing and jitter rejection
- 10.10 Channel coding
- 10.11 Simple codes
- 10.12 Group codes
- 10.13 Randomizing and encryption
- 10.14 Partial response
- 10.15 Synchronizing
- 10.16 Basic error correction
- 10.17 Concealment by interpolation
- 10.18 Parity
- 10.19 Block and convolutional codes
- 10.20 Cyclic codes
- 10.21 Introduction to the Reed–-Solomon codes
- 10.22 Correction by erasure
- 10.23 Interleaving
- 10.24 Product codes
- References
- Chapter 11 Storage devices
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Disk storage
- 11.3 Magnetic disks
- 11.4 Accessing the blocks
- 11.5 Servo-surface disks
- 11.6 Winchester technology
- 11.7 The disk controller
- 11.8 Defect handling
- 11.9 RAID arrays
- 11.10 Disk servers
- 11.11 Optical disk principles
- 11.12 Focus and tracking systems
- 11.13 Structure of a DVD player
- 11.14 Digital video tape
- 11.15 The rotary head tape transport
- 11.16 Digital video cassettes
- 11.17 DVTR block diagram
- 11.18 Picture in shuttle
- 11.19 DV and DVCPRO
- Chapter 12 Communication systems
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 Production-related interfaces
- 12.3 SDI
- 12.4 SDTI
- 12.5 ASI
- 12.6 AES/EBU
- 12.7 Telephone-based systems
- 12.8 Digital television broadcasting
- 12.9 MPEG packets and time stamps
- 12.10 Program clock reference
- 12.11 Program Specific Information (PSI)
- 12.12 Transport stream multiplexing
- 12.13 Remultiplexing
- 12.14 Broadcast modulation techniques
- 12.15 OFDM
- 12.16 Error correction in digital television broadcasting
- 12.17 DVB
- 12.18 The DVB receiver
- 12.19 ATSC
- 12.20 Networks
- 12.21 Network arbitration
- 12.22 FireWire
- 12.23 Broadband networks and ATM
- 12.24 ATM AALs
- References
- Index
Convergence in Broadcast and Communications Media
The fundamentals of audio, video, data processing and communications technologies
John Watkinson
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