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• Color space
A color space is a way of representing and describing the complete range of
perceived colors. A number of color spaces have been developed. Common color
spaces are RGB and HSL. Both describe the same range of perceivable colors.
• Composite sync
A synchronization signal made up of two components: one horizontal and one
vertical.
• DCF
Digitizer Configuration Format.
A DCF
defines the input data format and among
other things, how to accept or generate video timing signals such as horizontal
sync, vertical sync, and pixel clock.
• Display memory
See
frame buffer
.
• Exposure time
Refers to the period during which the image sensor of a camera is exposed to light.
As the length of this period increases, so does the image brightness.
• Field
One of the two halves that make up an image. One half consists of the image's
odd lines (known as the
odd field
); the other half consists of the image's even lines
(known as the
even field
).
• Frame
A single image grabbed from a video camera.
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