Term

byte-aligned

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A bit in a coded bit stream is byte-aligned if its position is a multiple of 8-bits from the first bit in the stream.

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bury ratio

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The ratio, normally expressed in dB, between the average power of the primary 8-VSB signal and the power of a buried spread spectrum sharing the same channel.

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buried spread spectrum

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A technique permitting carriage of data in the same spectrum with, but without interference to, another signal by transmitting that data at a much reduced level relative to the primary signal and using coding techniques to permit its recovery with adequate signal-to-noise ratio.

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BS.1770

Posted on April 1, 2015 in

This specifies an algorithm that provides a numerical value indicative of the perceived loudness of the content that is measured. Loudness meters and measurement tools which have implemented the BS.1770 algorithm will report loudness in units of “LKFS”.

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broadcast system

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The collection of equipment necessary to transmit signals of a specified nature.

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bounded resource

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An application resource of determinate length.

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block

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A block is an 8-by-8 array of pel values or DCT coefficients representing luminance or chrominance information.

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bit rate

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The rate at which the bit stream is delivered from the channel to the input of a decoder.

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BIOP object

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An object formatted according to the generic BIOP message structure defined in the DSMCC.

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binding structure

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The DirectoryMessageBody() of a directory object, consisting of a list of bindings associating object names with their locations.

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