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GRACEFUL DEGRADATION [1 record]

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Record 1 2009-06-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Television (Radioelectricity)
CONT

Graceful degradation for digitally encoded HDTV [high-definition television] signals is achieved by appropriately coding the image to provide a controllable degradation of chosen image characteristics, such as temporal degradation, spatial degradation, and dynamic range degradation.

OBS

graceful degradation: term standardized by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Télévision (Radioélectricité)
CONT

Un autre avantage du codage multi-résolution est d'offrir une dégradation progressive des images lorsque le taux d'erreurs dans le flux binaire augmente, ce que ne permet pas un algorhitme de codage numérique classique.

OBS

dégradation progressive : terme normalisé par la Commission électrotechnique internationale (CEI).

Spanish

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