Research Catalog

Title

Digital television systems / Marcelo Sampaio de Alencar.

Author

Alencar, Marcelo S., 1957-

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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Details

Description

xxii, 285 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subjects

• Digital television
• Digital television > Standards

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Fundamentals of digital television -- 1.1 Digital television -- 1.2 High-definition television -- 1.3 The digital programming platform -- 1.4 Interactivity -- 1.5 Return channel for digital television -- 1.6 Digital television standards -- 1.7 Television receivers -- 2. Audio and video coding -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Source coding -- 2.3 The source coding process -- 2.4 Signal sampling -- 2.5 The quantization process -- 2.6 Development of the model for the quantizer -- 2.7 The encoding process -- 2.8 Video encoding standards -- 3. Fundamentals and standards of video and audio compression -- 3.1 An overview of audio and video compression -- 3.2 General concepts and fundamentals -- 3.3 The MPEG-4 standard -- 3.4 ITU-T H.264/AVC -- 4. Channel coding for digital television -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Cyclic codes -- 4.3 Decoding cyclic codes -- 4.4 Soft-decision decoding -- 4.5 Concatenated codes -- 4.6 Concatenated codes -- 4.7 Error correction in digital television standards -- 5. Digital and analog transmission systems -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Amplitude modulation (AM) -- 5.3 Quadrature amplitude modulation (QUAM) -- 5.4 Angle modulated systems -- 6. Advanced Television Systems Committee standard (ATSC) -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Overview of the system -- 6.3 Transmission modes -- 6.4 Standard for interactivity -- 7. Digital video broadcasting (DVB) -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 System features -- 7.3 Transmission standards -- 7.4 Interactivity -- 7.5 Middleware -- 8. International Services Digital Broadcasting for Terrestrial Television Broadcasting (ISDB) -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 ISDB transmission -- 8.3 The transmission process -- 8.4 The channel encoding -- 8.5 Modulation -- 9. International System for Digital Television (ISDTV) -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Reference model for a terrestrial DTV system -- 9.3 Source coding -- 9.4 Transport layer -- 9.5 Transmission and reception -- 9.6 Middleware -- 9.7 Interactivity channel -- 10. Digital terrestrial television multimedia broadcasting (DTMB) -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Scrambler -- 10.3 Forward error correction (FEC) code -- 10.4 Signal constellation and mapping -- 10.5 Interleaving -- 10.6 Frame structure -- 10.7 Time-domain synchronous orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (TDS-OFDM) -- 10.8 Post-baseband processing -- 10.9 Receiver design.

ISBN

• 9780521896023
• 0521896029

LCCN

2009464134

OCLC

• ocn305160100
• 305160100
• SCSB-9307741

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library