Channel-Compatible 6-MHz HDTV Distribution Systems

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY
Doc Type: Conference Paper
Content Type: Original Research
Volume: 1988, No. 16, pp. 171–191
Abstract: A TV distribution system is described whose purpose is to achieve the highest possible image quality within a prescribed analog channel bandwidth, assumed here to be 6 MHz, using receiver technology deemed to be practical in the near future. This system is designed to be used immediately for controlled-access systems such as cable. It is also suitable for eventual broadcasting use in a two-stage strategy in which an intermediate backward-compatible system is the first stage. Applications to fm, recording, and digital transmission are described. The efficiency of analog channel utilization is improved over NTSC by using double sideband quadrature modulation of two 3-MHz signals on a single carrier in the center of the band, and by elimination of the retrace intervals and sound carrier. Higher perceived quality for a given transmission rate is achieved by dividing the signal into components according to both spatial and temporal frequency, and transmitting the appropriate combination of components according to the degree of motion in each scene. A “smart,” programmable, open-architecture receiver is proposed capable of decoding a wide variety of signal formats and displaying the image at higher line and frame rates than transmitted. Such a receiver can also display the backward-compatible EDTV system described in a companion paper, and can be upgraded over time by virtue of its programmability and by adding hardware and software modules.
Publication Date: 1988-01-01
DOI: 10.5594/M00532
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/M00532
Author(s): W. F. SchreiberMassachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts
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William F. Schreiber attended New York City public schools and Columbia University, where he received a B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering. In 1953, he received a Ph.D. in applied physics at Harvard University, where he was a Gordon McKay and Charles Coffin Fellow. Dr. Schreiber worked at Sylvania from 1947 to 1949 and at Technicolor Corp. in Hollywood, Calif from 1953 to 1959. Since then he has been a faculty member at MIT, where he is now professor of electrical engineering and director of the advanced television research program. He was visiting professor of electrical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, in 1964–66, and at INRS-Telecommunications, Montreal, Quebec, 1981–82. Since 1948, Dr. Schreiber's major professional interest has been image processing. He has worked in graphic arts, including color processing and laser scanner design, in facsimile, and in television. This work has included theory and extensive practical applications. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, an Honors Award recipient of the Technical Association of Graphics Arts, and has twice received the best paper award of the SMPTE Journal.
A. B. LippmanMassachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Andy Lippman is associate director of MIT's Media Laboratory. He is currently director of the electronic publishing group within the lab and is principal investigator of a new reseach program addressing the “future of the movies.” This program focuses on the intelligent interaction between computing and sequential visual images. A highlight of it is “paperback movies,” work to compress a movie into a digital representation suitable for distribution on a compact disc. In the past, he directed the architecture machine group and led the development of such interactive systems as the Movie-Map, a videodisc-based map of Aspen, Colorado, and the Movie Manual, an electronic book. In addition, he directed research programs on teleconferencing, news information systems, display technology, and high-definition television.
A. N. NetravaliMassachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Dr. Arun N. Netravali is director of the Computing Systems Research Laboratory at AT&T Bell Laboratories, with reponsibility for research in artificial intelligence, VLSI design aids and architectures, communication networks, distributed computing, programming languages, software engineering, and interactive systems. He joined Bell Laboratories in 1972 as a member of the technical staff, became head of the Visual Communications Research Department in 1978, and assumed his current position in 1983. He was at NASA from 1970 to 1972, where he worked on problems related to filtering, guidance, and control for the space shuttle. He has been an adjunct professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1984, and has taught graduate courses at City College, Columbia University, and Rutgers University. Dr. Natravali received the B. Tech (Honors) degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, in 1967 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Rice University, Houston, Texas, in 1969 and 1970, respectively, all in electrical engineering. He received the Donald G. Fink Award for the best review paper published in the Proceedings of the IEEE in 1980, the journal award for the best paper from the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers in 1982, and the L. G. Abraham Award for the best paper by the IEEE Communications Society in 1985. He is an avid tennis player and has won several local championships.
E. H. AdelsonMassachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Edward H. Adelson received a B.A. in physics and philosophy from Yale in 1974 and a PH.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Michigan in 1979. From 1981 to 1986 he was on the research staff of RCA Sarnoff Labs in Princeton, N.J., where he worked on visual psychophysics, machine vision, and digital image processing. He was awarded the Adolph Lomb Medal by the Optical Society of America in 1984. In 1987 he joined the MIT Media Laboratory as an associate professor; he also holds a joint appointment with the MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Science. He has published over twenty papers and holds four U.S. patents.
D. H. StaelinMassachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts
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David H. Staelin was born in Toledo, Ohio, in 1938. He received S.B., S.M., and Sc.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. He has been on the faculty at M.I.T. since 1976 and is now a professor of electrical engineering. His current research involves video image processing, passive microwave remote sensing, optical stellar interferometry, and radio astronomy. His teaching is in the areas of signal processing and electromagnetic radiation, and his consulting is in the areas of satellite and video communications, and remote sensing. He is a founder of PictureTel Corp., Peabody, Mass., and served as chairman from 1984 to 1987.
Copyright: © 1988 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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