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Tektronix provides test and measurement instruments, solutions and services for the computer, semiconductor, military/aerospace, consumer electronics and education industries worldwide.
An image or pattern appearing so regularly on the screen of a picture tube that it ages the phosphors and remains as a ghost image even when other images are supposed to be shown. On computer terminals, the areas occupied by characters are frequently burned, particularly in the upper left corner. In television transmission centers, color bars are sometimes burned onto monitors. There is some concern that some ATV schemes will burn a widescreen pattern on ordinary TV sets due to increased vertical blanking or will burn a non-widescreen pattern on ATV sets due to reception of non-ATV signals. In production, refers to long-term or permanent image retention of camera pickup tubes when subjected to excessive highlights.
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Compacting of a digital signal, particularly when a high compression ratio is used, may result in small errors in the decompressed signal. These errors are known as “artifacts,” or unwanted defects.
The artifacts may resemble noise (or edge “busyness”) or may cause parts of the picture, particularly fast moving portions, to be displayed with the movement distorted or missing.
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Jump to a subroutine. A jump to a specified address is performed, but the contents of the program counter are saved (usually in the stack) so that the calling program flow can resume when the subroutine is finished.
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The window that appears each time you log in. IRIX reports all status and error messages to this window.
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A time code that is displayed on the monitor along with the video it pertains to. Burn In Time Code can either be Vertical Interval Time Code (VITC) or Longitudinal Time Code (LTC).
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Ratio of input bit rate to output (compressed) bit rate. Like Compression Ratio.
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The combination of camera and video tape recorder in one device. Camcorders permit easy and rapid photography and recording simultaneously. Camcorders are available in most home video formats: 8 mm, Hi-8, VHS, VHS-C, S-VHS, etc.
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An image which persists in a fixed position in the output signal of a camera tube after the camera has been turned to a different scene.
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A value that indicates by what factor an image file has been reduced after compression. If a 1 MB image file is compressed to 500 KB, the compression ratio would be a factor of 2. The higher the ratio the greater the compression.
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