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Persistence of vision:
the eye (or the brain rather) can retain the sensation of an
image for a short time even after the actual image is
removed.
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Frame merging
When the frame interval is too long, the eye observes frame
flicker. The minimal frame rate (frames/ second or fps or
Hz) required to prevent frame flicker depends on display
brightness, viewing distance.
Higher frame rate is required with closer viewing and
brighter display.
For TV viewing: 50- 60 fps
For Movie viewing: 24 fps
For computer monitor: > 70 fps
Line merging
As with frame merging, the eye can fuse separate lines into
Merging pixels
Similarly, the eye can fuse separate pixels in a line into one
continuously varying line, as long as the spacing between
pixels is sufficiently small.
Interlacing
For some reason, the brighter the still image presented to the
viewer ... the shorter the persistence of vision.
If the space between pictures is longer than the period of
persistence of vision then the image flickers. Therefore, to
arrange for two "flashes" per frame,
interlacing creates the flashes. The basic idea here is that a
single frame is scanned twice. The first scan includes only
the odd lines, the next scan includes only the even lines.
NTSC has 525 vertical lines. However lines number 248 to 263
and 511 to 525 are typically blanked to provide time for the
beam to return to the upper left hand corner for the next scan.
Notice that the beam does not return directly to the top, but zigzags a bit.
TV Transmitter (B&W)
TV Receiver (B&W)
COLOR TELEVISION
One of the great electrical engineering triumphs was the
development of color television in such a way that it
remained compatible with black and white television.
A major driving force behind the majority of current color
TV standards was to allow black-and-white TVs to continue
to be able to receive a valid TV signal after color service
was in place.
New chrominance signal (formed by Q and I) has the interesting property that
the magnitude of the signal represents the color saturation, and the phase of the
signal represents the hue.
Phase = Arctan (Q/ I) = hue
Magnitude = sqrt (I 2+ Q 2) = saturation
Now, since the I and Q signals are clearly phase sensitive -- some sort of phase
The phase reference consists of 8-10 cycles of the 3.58 MHz signal. It is called
changes
much
slower
than
luminance
Color Decoder
a. lines
v. resolution aspect
h.resolution
frame rate
NTSC
525
484
242
4/3
427
29.94
PAL
625
575
290
4/3
425
25
SECAM
625
575
290
4/3
465
25
The PAL signal terms its B-Y component U and its R-Y
component V and phase-flips the V component (line by line)
as:
Summary
Television is the radio transmission of sound and pictures in
the VHF and UHF ranges. The voice signal from a
microphone is frequency-modulated. A camera converts a
picture or scene into an electrical signal called the video or
luminance Y signal, which amplitude-modulated
Vestigial sideband AM is used to conserve spectrum space.
The picture and sound transmitter frequencies are spaced
4.5 MHz apart, with the sound frequency being the higher.
.The color picture tube contains three electron guns that generate narrow electron
beams aimed at the phosphor coating on the inside of the face of the picture tube.
The phosphor is arranged in millions of tiny red, green, and blue color dot triads or
stripes in proportion to their intensity and generate light of any color depending
upon the amplitude of the red, green, and blue signals. The electron beam is
scanned or deflected horizontally and vertically in step with the transmitted video
signals. Deflection signals from the internal sweep circuits drive coils in a
deflection yoke around the neck of the picture creating magnetic fields that sweep
the three electron beams.