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Digital Video and HD
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Digital Video and HD

by Charles Poynton
January 2003
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
736 pages
30h 54m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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Constant luminance
8
The term
luminance
is widely
misused in video. See
Relative
luminance,
on page 206, and
Appendix A,
YUV and luminance
considered harmful,
on page 595.
Applebaum, Sidney, "Gamma
Correction in Constant Luminance
Color Television Systems," in Proc.
IRE, 40 (11): 1185-1195
(Oct. 1952).
Video systems convey color image data using one
component to represent lightness, and two other
components to represent color, absent lightness. In
Color science for video,
on page 233, I will detail how
luminance can be formed as a weighted sum of linear
RGB
values that are proportional to optical power. ...
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ISBN: 9781558607927