CHAPTER 13

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Video Circuits and Systems

Video signals are a little bit more complicated than audio signals because they have to include synchronizing information (e.g., sync pulses, color burst signals, etc.). Horizontal and vertical synchronizing signals are essential to command a display when and where to display the picture information. Also, unlike audio signals that can be additively mixed together with any other audio signal, video signals have to synchronize in phase and frequency to each other or to a common clock signal before any additive mixing can be done.

This chapter will show how to control the contrast, brightness, sharpness, and ...

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