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From: howard@aic.dpl.scg.hac.com (Mike Howard (213)317-5690)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: NTSC camera connected to DataCube Digimax = confusion
Summary: NTSC 790x485 CCD camera out to 512x512 RS-170 digitizer
Keywords: NTSC RS-170 video camera standards DataCube
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Date: 14 Feb 90 23:39:49 GMT
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Reply-To: howard@aic.hrl.hac.com (Mike Howard)
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Organization: Hughes Aircraft Co., El Segundo, CA
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Where do I find a description of the NTSC and RS-170 standards
for video?  I am working with a CCD camera that has 790x485 pixels,
and is supplying NTSC output.  I'm digitizing it with 3 DataCube
Digimax A/D which accept RS-170 input at 10 MHz 512x480 image size.
This is fine until I start trying to calculate the positions of 
pixels, etc.

So I think I'm basically getting a 790x485 stream of pixels that's
being chopped up into 512x480 pixels by the digitizer, which gives 
some blurring of pixels.  I don't want to get deeply into the spec,
I just want to know what the respective waveforms look like.  Is there
some textbook that talks about problems like this?

OK, this isn't strictly graphics, but it's related, and I don't
see another more suitable group.  Don't flame on, just redirect
me if you can.  Direct email would be preferable to net response, since
I don't think this group is primarily interested in this.

Mike Howard   howard@aic.hrl.hac.com
Hughes Research Labs, Malibu, CA