The Language of Mobile Imaging: A Glossary of 1,405 Technical & Business Terms

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Introduction

Acknowledgements

Glossary of Terms

#: 10BaseT - 8PSK [8 Phase Shift Keying]

A: A2P [Application-to-Person] - AXE

B: BABT [Board of Approval for British Telecommunications] - Byte

C: C++ - CVSD [Continuously Variable Slope Delta]

D: D1 - Dyne

E: E-911 - EZWeb

F: Face Plate - Full Well Capacity

G: GAA [GPRS Application Alliance] - Guide Number

H: H- Hz [Hertz]

I: I/Q modulation - IWMSC [Inter-Working Mobile Switching Center]

J: J2ME [Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition] - JTAPI [Java Telephony API]

K: kbps [kilobits per second] - Kilobit

L: L2F [Layer Two Forwarding protocol] - LZW [Lempel-Ziv-Welch]

M: M2M [Machine-to-Machine] - MVNO [Mobile Virtual Network Operator]

N: NADC [North American Digital Cellular] - Number Portability

O: O&M [Operations & Maintenance] - OTA [Over-The-Air]

P: P2P [Peer-To-Peer] - Push

Q: QAM [Quadrature Amplitude Modulation] - QWERTY

R: RA [Routing Area] - R-UIM [Removable User Identity Module]

S: SAGE [Security - Group of Experts] - SyncML [Synchronization Markup Language]

T: T-1 Line - Twister

U: UDP [User Datagram Protocol] - UXGA [Ultra Extended Graphic Array]

V: V CAST - VPN [Virtual Private Network]

W: W3C [The World Wide Web Consortium] - WWAN [Wireless Wide Area Network]

X: X - XVGA [eXtended Video Graphic Array]

Y: Yagi - YUV

Z: ZigBee - Zoom Lens

Order Forms

TABLE OF FIGURES

Fig. 1 - Aliasing (top); anti-aliasing (bottom)

Fig. 2 - An example of amplitude modulation

Fig. 3 - Konica Minolta’s Anti-Shake technology

Fig. 4 - Standard apertures (f-stops)

Fig. 5 - Designing an avatar

Fig. 6 - Backlighting

Fig. 7 - Barrel Distortion

Fig. 8 - Bayer Color Filter Array Pattern

Fig. 9 - Blooming

Fig. 10 - Bracketing: -2EV, +2EV, 0EV (“normal”)

Fig. 11 - Camera module (OmniVision 3MP)

Fig. 12 - Candybar phone (SEMC K790)

Fig. 13 - CCD

Fig. 14 - CompactFlash Cards

Fig. 15 - Changeable Faceplates (SEMC Z600)

Fig. 16 - Chromatic Aberration

Fig. 17 - Clamshell phone (Audiovox CDM-9900)

Fig. 18 - Sony ClearVid Sensor

Fig. 19 - CMOS Image Sensor

Fig. 20 - Coaxial Cable

Fig. 21 - Coverage Map (SF Bay Area)

Fig. 22 - Cropping

Fig. 23 - Depth of Field (top, f/5, bottom, f/32)

Table 1 - Digital Zoom Factors

Fig. 24 - Electromagnetic Spectrum

Fig. 25 - Frequency Modulation

Fig. 26 - Foveon X3 Sensor

Fig. 27 - Hard Disk Drives for mobiles

Fig. 28 - A high key portrait

Fig. 29 - Histograms (RGB)

Fig. 30 - Head Mounted Display (Icuiti DV920)

Fig. 31 - Reflective twisted nematic liquid crystal display

Fig. 32 - Close-up of a typical LED

Fig. 33 - Types of lenses

Fig. 34 - Philips Fluid Focus Lens

Fig. 35 - Low key photograph

Fig. 36 - Memory Sticks

Fig. 37 - Microlens array on photodiodes

Fig. 38 - microSD card

Fig. 39 - miniSD card

Fig. 40 - MultiMediaCard (MMC)

Fig. 41 - Moiré pattern

Fig. 42 - Notebook computer (Sony Vaio)

Fig. 43 - The physical structure of an RGB OLED cell

Fig. 44 - A “stitched” panorama

Fig. 45 - Parallax shift

Fig. 46 - 4-bit PCM of a sine wave (red)

Fig. 47 - PCMCIA cards (Sprint EV-DO cards)

Fig. 48 - Pincushion Distortion

Fig. 49 - PMT (Photo Multiplier tube)

Fig. 50 - An example of posterization (right)

Fig. 51 - An example of red-eye

Fig. 52 - RS-MMC card (w/adapter, on left)

Fig. 53 - SD (Secure Digital) card

Fig. 54 - Normal - Sharpened - Over-sharpened

Fig. 55 - Slider phone (VK200C)

Fig. 56 - SLR (Nikon D2H)

Fig. 57 - SmartMedia Card

Fig. 58 - Smartphone (Treo 650)

Fig. 59 - Structural difference between conventional CCD (left) and Super CCD (right)

Fig. 60 - Swiveler phone (Kyocera Koi)

Fig. 61 - Twister phone (NTT DoCoMo N506iS)

Fig. 62 - An image showing Vignetting

Fig. 63 - Voice Coil Actuators

Fig. 64 - Wavefront Encoding

Fig. 65 - Webcam (Apple iSight)

Fig. 66 - Subject photographed at various White Balance settings

Fig. 67 - Wearable Information Device

Fig. 68 - xD-Picture Card