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Course of Television

Course Description:

      The course offers general knowledge regarding the structure of a television system: image capture and display, video signal format, block schemas for TV camera and receiver, introduction to digital television, television and multimedia. In labs one can study practical electronic schemas for the component blocks.

Examination:

Final examination: 75 %
Laboratory activity: 25 %

Course syllabus:

1. Introduction (4 h)

1.1. Notions of photometry
1.2. Notions of colorimetry

2. Basics of Monochrome Television (8 h)

2.1. The Scanning Methods (interlaced and noninterlaced)
2.2. The Scanning Standards (lines per frame, pictures per second)
2.3. The Resolution Concept.
2.4. The Composite Video Signal

The video information
The synchronizing information
Blanking intervals and structure

2.5. The Spectrum of the Video Signal
2.6. Transmission Standards and Constrains
2.7. Channel Bandwidth and Structure

3. Basics of Color Television (16 h)

3.1. Principles of a Color Compatible System

Brightness information
Chrominance information
The color bars signal

3.2. The NTSC System.
3.3. The PAL System
3.4. The SECAM System

4. Introduction to Digital Television (4 h)

4.1. Sampling and Quantizing the Video Signal
4.2. The Composite Digital Standards

5. Specific Electronics for Television Systems (10 h)

5.1. Monochrome and color CRT

Construction
Functionality

5.2. The Image Capture with CCD Sensor
5.3. TV and Monitor Deflection Systems

Horizontal deflection/high voltage circuits
Vertical deflection circuits

Lab syllabus:

1. The Monochrome Composite Video Signal
2. The vidicon tube
3. The picture tube (kinescope)
4. The block schemas of a color TV receiver
5. Video amplifier used in a TV receiver
6. Switch-mode power supply used in TV receptors
7. The horizontal deflection circuits in TV receptors
8. The high voltage and other various auxiliary power obtained from the horizontal deflection
9. The vertical deflection circuits
10. The Pal/SECAM decoder in a TV receptor
11. The block schemas of a video camera
12. Video amplifier used in TV camera
13. The teletext Signal and System: part I
14. The teletext Signal and System: part II

References:

1. Robin Michael, Poulin Michel, Digital Television Fundamentals, sec. Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2000.
2. G. Mitrofan, Introducere în televiziunea în culori, Ed. Teora , Bucuresti, 1996