Overview
Here's a comprehensive description of recent developments in audio and video coding standards, including those applicable to PSTN, N-ISDN, B-ISDN, LAN and mobile networks. It offers you today's most complete summary of video and speech coding techniques, coupled with extensive coverage of standards for communication of multimedia signals, including videophone, video conferencing, and remote access to multimedia databases. Offering a comprehensive and detailed engineering-level treatment of compression techniques and standards, the book addresses the technologies of video and audio compression, data communication protocols, digital TV, digital audio and multimedia.
Synopsis
Here's a comprehensive description of recent developments in audio and video coding standards, including those applicable to PSTN, N-ISDN, B-ISDN, LAN and mobile networks. It offers you today's most complete summary of video and speech coding techniques, coupled with extensive coverage of standards for communication of multimedia signals, including videophone, video conferencing, and remote access to multimedia databases. Offering a comprehensive and detailed engineering-level treatment of compression techniques and standards, the book addresses the technologies of video and audio compression, data communication protocols, digital TV, digital audio and multimedia. As it breaks new ground in its field, this authoritative volume enables you to:
Better understand the standards for communicating multimedia signals
Master the base technology of video and audio coding
Solve the problem of building marketable multimedia equipment that complies with standards
Determine how you can contribute to the standardization process
Featuring nearly 100 illustrations and 20 equations, Videoconferencing & Videotelephony: Technology and Standards is a must for corporate communication managers, manufacturers of multimedia communications equipment, and research managers in the audiovisual area. Graduate-level students will also find the book an important reference.
Booknews
Describes recent developments in the technology and standards for communicating multimedia signals through such media as videophones, video teleconferencing in the conference room or on the desktop, and remote access to multimedia databases. Primarily concerned with new standards developed by the ITU and ISO that define the procedures, to which Schaphorst himself has contributed significantly. Video compression techniques, speech coding, mobile radio, local-area networks, and multipoint graphic communication are among the topics. No bibliography. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)