4 Terms
Contributors in Video
Video
Dynamic range
Entertainment; Video
A) A circuit’s signal range. b) An audio term which refers to the range between the softest and loudest levels a source can produce without distortion. c) The difference, in decibels, between the ...
Dynamic range, display
Entertainment; Video
The range of luminances actually achieved in a display. The system’s overall transfer function is the most informative specification of dynamic range, inasmuch as nonlinear processing has nearly ...
Dynamic range, image capture
Entertainment; Video
The range of luminances actually captured in the image is defined and limited by the transfer function which is usually nonlinear. Capture and recording systems traditionally limit their linear ...
Dynamic range compression
Entertainment; Video
Level adjustment applied to an audio signal in order to limit the difference, or range of the loudest to the softest sounds.
Dynamic resolution
Entertainment; Video
The amount of spatial resolution available in moving pictures. In most television schemes, dynamic resolution is considerably less than static resolution. See also Motion Surprise, Spatial ...
Dynamic rounding
Entertainment; Video
The intelligent truncation of digital signals. Some image processing requires that two signals are multiplied, for example in digital mixing, producing a 16-bit result from two original 8-bit ...
Daisy chain
Entertainment; Video
Bus line that is interconnected with units so that the signal passes from one unit to the next in serial fashion.
