• DocumentCode
    1072147
  • Title

    Digital video coding techniques for US high-definition TV

  • Author

    Petajan, Eric

  • Author_Institution
    AT&T Bell Lab., Murray Hill, NJ, USA
  • Volume
    12
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    1992
  • Firstpage
    13
  • Lastpage
    21
  • Abstract
    Motion-compensated transform coding is proposed for video compression in systems for the US terrestrial broadcast of high-definition television (HDTV). A noncritical overview of the video coding techniques used in the four proposed digital HDTV systems, that provides basic descriptions of the discrete cosine transform, motion estimation and compensation, adaptive quantization, variable-length coding, and compressed video data formatting is presented.<>
  • Keywords
    data compression; high definition television; image coding; video signals; US terrestrial broadcast; adaptive quantization; compressed video data formatting; digital HDTV systems; digital video coding; discrete cosine transform; high-definition television; motion compensated transform coding; motion compensation; motion estimation; variable-length coding; video compression; Digital TV; Digital video broadcasting; FCC; HDTV; Quantization; Spatial resolution; TV broadcasting; Terminology; Video coding; Video compression;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Micro, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0272-1732
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/40.166708
  • Filename
    166708