New Developments in Electronic Character Generation

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: J SMPTE
Volume: 95, No. 5, pp. 557–561
Abstract: The shortcomings of conventional electronic character generators in broadcast television are discussed, and the quality of their output is compared with that obtained from scanned artwork. The various distortions inherent in conventional character generators are explained. A new character generator is described that uses anti-aliasing techniques to allow characters to be faithfully reproduced from the typeface designer's artwork and displayed with a minimum of distortion. Other distortions caused by conventional keying techniques are explained, and new ways of overcoming them are proposed.
Publication Date: 1986-05-01
DOI: 10.5594/J17728
ISSN: Print: 0036-1682
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/J17728
Author(s): John H. WoodAston Electronics Designs Ltd., Deepcut, Surrey, England
Donald R. MacClymontAston Electronics Inc., Olathe, Kan.
Copyright: © 1986 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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Tanton N. E. . “Electronic Generation of Text for Television,” BBC Research Dept. Report 1984/14. EXTERNAL

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