CCTV : networking and digital technology /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Elsevier/Butterworth Heinemann,
©2005.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=189619 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- First chapter
- 1. SI units of measurement
- The basic units
- Derived units
- Metric prefixes
- 2. Light and television
- A little bit of history
- Light basics and the human eye
- Light units
- Measuring object illumination in CCTV
- Light onto an imaging device
- Colors in television
- Color temperatures and light sources
- Eye persistence
- 3. Optics in CCTV
- Refraction
- Lenses as optical elements
- Geometrical construction of images
- Aspherical lenses
- CTF and MTF
- F and T numbers
- Depth of field
- Neutral density (ND) filters
- Manual, auto, and motorized iris lenses
- Video- and DC-driven auto iris lenses
- Auto iris lens electronics
- Image and lens formats in CCTV
- Angles of view and how to determine them
- Fixed focal length lenses
- Zoom lenses
- C- and CS-mount and back-focus
- Back-focus adjustment
- Optical accessories in CCTV
- 4. General characteristics of television systems
- A little bit of history
- The very basics of television
- NTSC television timing chart
- PAL B television timing chart
- The video signal and its spectrum
- Color video signal
- Resolution
- Instruments commonly used in TV
- Oscilloscope
- Spectrum analyzer
- Vectorscope
- Television systems around the world
- HDTV
- 5. CCTV cameras
- General information about cameras
- Tube cameras
- CCD cameras
- Sensitivity and resolution of the CCD chips
- Types of charge transfer in CCDs
- Pulses used in CCD for transferring charges
- CCD chip as a sampler
- Correlated double sampling (CDS)
- Camera specifications and their meanings
- Sensitivity
- Minimum illumination
- Camera resolution
- Signal/noise ratio (S/N)
- Dynamic range of a CCD chip
- Color CCD cameras
- White balance
- CMOS technology
- Special low-light-intensified cameras
- Camera power supplies and copper conductors
- V-phase adjustment
- Camera checklist
- 6. CCTV monitors
- General about monitors
- Monitor sizes
- Monitor adjustments
- Impedance switch
- Viewing conditions
- Gamma
- LCD monitors
- Projectors and projection monitors
- Plasma display monitors
- Field emission technology displays
- 7. Video processing equipment
- Analog switching equipment
- Video sequential switchers
- Synchronization
- Video matrix switchers (VMSs)
- Switching and processing equipment
- Quad compressors
- Multiplexers (MUX)
- Recording time delays
- Simplex and duplex multiplexers
- Video motion detectors (VMDs)
- Framestores
- Video printers
- 8. Analog video recorders
- A little bit of history and the basic concept
- The early VCR concepts
- The video home system (VHS) concept
- Super VHS, Y/C, and comb filtering
- Consumer VCRs for CCTV purposes
- Time-lapse VCRs (TL VCRs)
- 9. Digital video
- Why digital video?