Abstract
There are many still and video image formats in current use. These vary by resolution and compression technique used. Higher-resolution formats are generally used in content capture while content distribution uses compressed formats to reduce bandwidth demand. This chapter exhibits examples of digital image (still and video) storage requirements for various common formats and resolutions. It also includes discussion of the types of storage devices used in capture of digital still and video images, as well as storage used for field editing and archiving. Future content will require even greater storage and bandwidth as demand for higher-resolution and 3D content drive developments and changes in the required technology.
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Abbreviations
- CCD:
-
Charge-Coupled Device
- GIF:
-
Graphics Interchange Format
- HDTV:
-
High-Definition TV
- JPG/JPEG:
-
Joint Photographics Expert Group
- LZW:
-
Lempel Ziv Welch
- PNG:
-
Portable Network Graphics
- SDTV:
-
Standard Definition TV
- TIF:
-
Tagged Image File
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Coughlin, T. (2012). Digital Image Storage and Compression. In: Chen, J., Cranton, W., Fihn, M. (eds) Handbook of Visual Display Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79567-4_23
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