What does a country’s television programming say about its deep character, beliefs, dreams, and fears? In Demon in the Box, Tasha G. Oren recounts the volatile history of Israeli television and thereby reveals the history of the nation itself.

Книга английского автора полностью охватывает теорию и практику ТВ-приемников от основных принципов аналогового монохромного и цветного приема до цифрового телевидения.

The book is organized into four parts, based on descriptions of objects at four different levels of abstraction.
1. Generalized images-images and image-like entities.
2. Segmented images-images organized into subimages that are likely to correspond to "interesting objects."
3. Geometric structures-quantitative models of image and world structures.
4. Relational structures-complex symbolic descriptions of image and world structures.

The parts follow a progression of increasing abstractness. Although the four parts are most naturally studied in succession, they are not tightly interdependent. Part I is a prerequisite for Part II, but Parts III and IV can be read independently.

Image processing, the use of computers to process pictures, has revolutionized the fields of medicine, space exploration, geology, and oceanography, and has become the hottest area in digital signal processing. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the most popular image processing techniques used today, without getting bogged down in the complex mathematical presentations found in most image processing books and journals.

Rapidly evolving computer and communications technologies have achieved data transmission rates and data storage capacities high enough for digital video. But video involves much more than just pushing bits! Achieving the best possible image quality, accurate color, and smooth motion requires understanding many aspects of image acquisition, coding, processing, and display that are outside the usual realm of computer graphics. At the same time, video system designers are facing new demands to interface with film and computer system that require techniques outside conventional video engineering.

Science fiction is a literary genre based on scientific speculation. Works of science fiction use the ideas and the vocabulary of all sciences to create valid narratives that explore the future effects of science on events and human beings.