SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal ( Volume: 116, Issue: 10, October 2007)
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Color Processing for Digital Cinema 2: Explanation of the Constants 4095 and 52.37, the White Points, and the Black
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- Publisher
- SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
- Doc Type
- Journal Article
- Content Type
- Original Research
- Abbreviated Title
- SMPTE Mot. Imag. J
- Volume
- 116, No. 10, pp. 447–455
- Abstract
- This series of articles on the color processing for digital cinema is based on the Engineering Guideline, SMPTE 432–1. The DC28 committee thought the information in that guideline would be more widely available if it were published as a series of articles in the SMPTE Journal. This second article in the series describes the reasons for choosing the constants 4095 and 52.37 in the Digital Cinema Distribution Master (DCDM) encoding and decoding equations and discusses white and black points.
- Publication Date
- 2007-10-01
- DOI
10.5594/J16049- ISSN
- Print:
1545-0279| Electronic:2160-2492 - Link
- https://doi.org/10.5594/J16049
- Author(s)
- Thomas O. MaierEntertainment Imaging Business Unit of Eastman Kodak Co.
bio
Tom Maier is a research fellow in the Entertainment Imaging Business Unit of Eastman Kodak Co. He earned a BS degree in chemical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a PhD degree in chemistry from the University of Illinois. During his 36-year career at Kodak, Maier has written computer programs to model film and digital imaging systems, has developed methods to characterize and optimize the color quality of these imaging systems, and has run psychometric experiments to confirm the image quality of his computer optimizations. He previously served on a number of the CIE committees related to color and now serves on several SMPTE DC28 standards committees for digital projection systems. Maier contributed to the standards dealing with color in the digital cinema system and was the editor of the recently issued Engineering Guideline, SMPTE 432–1–2007, “Digital Source Processing—Color Processing for D-Cinema.” Maier was honored with the SMPTE Journal award in 2004 and a Journal Certificate in 2007. He is a member of SMPTE. - Copyright
- © 2007 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.
Bibliographic Reference(s)
- Contrast Sensitivity Experiment to Determine the Bit Depth for Digital Cinema [Active]
- 1. SMPTE 432–1, “Color Processing for D-Cinema,” www.smpte.org . EXTERNAL
- 2. SMPTE 428–1, “Digital Cinema Distribution Master (DCDM)—Image Characteristics,” www.smpte.org . EXTERNAL
- 3. SMPTE 431–1, “D-Cinema Exhibition Screen Luminance Level, Chromaticity and Uniformity,” www.smpte.org . EXTERNAL
- 4. SMPTE 431–2, “Reference Projector and Environment for Display of DCDM in Review Rooms and Theaters,” www.smpte.org . EXTERNAL
- 5. SMPTE 431–3, “Projection Image Measurements,” www.smpte.org . EXTERNAL
- 6. T. Maier, “Color Processing for Digital, Cinema: Background, Encoding and Decoding Equations, Encoding Primaries, and the Exponent (1/2.6),” SMPTE Mot. Imag. J. , published in this issue. EXTERNAL
- 7. Barten P. G. J. , Contrast Sensitivity of the Human Eye and Its Effects on Image Quality , SPIE Optical Engineering Press : Bellingham, Washington , 1999 . EXTERNAL
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