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■Color space
A color space is a way of representing and describing the complete range of perceived colors. A number of color spaces have been developed. Common color spaces are RGB and HSL. Both describe the same range of perceivable colors.
■Composite sync
A synchronization signal made up of two components: one horizontal and one vertical.
■Contiguous memory
A block of memory occupying a single, consecutive series of locations.
■DCF
Digitizer Configuration Format. A DCF defines the input data format and among other things, how to accept or generate video timing signals such as horizontal sync, vertical sync, and pixel clock.
■Display memory See frame buffer.
A software program that tells an operating system how to use a hardware device.
■Ethernet cable
A wire similar to a telephone cable that carries the signals between Ethernet devices.
■Exposure time
Refers to the period during which the image sensor of a camera is exposed to light. As the length of this period increases, so does the image brightness.
■Field
One of the two halves that make up an image. One half consists of the image’s odd lines (known as the odd field); the other half consists of the image’s even lines (known as the even field).
