What is luminance in television?
The luminance signal is formed by combining a proportion of 30% red, 59% green and 11% blue from the colour signal. This combined output becomes the luminance (brightness/ monochrome) signal. It is written as Y. In TV usually derived from the RGB signals originating from a camera or telecine, by a matrix or summation.
What is the chrominance signal?
Chrominance (chroma or C for short) is the signal used in video systems to convey the color information of the picture (see YUV color model), separately from the accompanying luma signal (or Y' for short).
What is luminance signal?
A luminance signal is formed from a first luminance signal produced by mixing a plurality of complementary color signals obtained from a television camera having complementary color filters and from a second luminance signal produced by mixing at a predetermined ratio a plurality of primary color signals that are ...