Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The difference between one color and a reference color of the same brightness and chromaticity.

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  • noun The signal used in video systems to convey the picture's colour information, separately from the accompanying luma signal.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Blend of chromo– and luminance.]

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Blend of chroma and luminance

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Examples

  • We quickly forget that chrominance is missing as our perceptual system depend primarily on luminance.

    Audio quality does matter Clive Shepherd 2007

  • Normally, the wardrobe folk make sure people aren't wearing stripes or patterns, where an interaction between fabric pattern and video scanning pixel pattern causes 'cross-colour interference' (i.e. the luminance signal breaks through into the chrominance).

    Archive 2004-04-01 Ray Girvan 2004

  • Normally, the wardrobe folk make sure people aren't wearing stripes or patterns, where an interaction between fabric pattern and video scanning pixel pattern causes 'cross-colour interference' (i.e. the luminance signal breaks through into the chrominance).

    Don't look at the tie! Ray Girvan 2004

  • BS is for limiting the luminance and chrominance values to a range that is acceptable for over-the-air transmission.

    Discussions: Message List - root 2010

  • BS is for limiting the luminance and chrominance values to a range that is acceptable for over-the-air transmission.

    Discussions: Message List - root 2010

  • The Sony A500 uses a combination of on-sensor noise reduction at each photocell location, plus a two-step noise reduction procedure which operates both before and after analog-to-digital conversion, processing chrominance and luminance noise separately.

    Imaging Resource What's New 2010

  • The Sony A500 uses a combination of on-sensor noise reduction at each photocell location, plus a two-step noise reduction procedure which operates both before and after analog-to-digital conversion, processing chrominance and luminance noise separately.

    Imaging Resource What's New 2010

  • With the Lumix LX5's processor, though, Panasonic's engineers finally had enough computing horsepower at their disposal to look at luminance (brightness) noise and chrominance (color) noise both separately and together.

    Imaging Resource News Page 2010

  • The Windows version wouldn't apply chrominance or luminance noise reduction to images.

    Imaging Resource News Page 2010

  • Componet Video: aka: YPbPr, YCbCr, YUV. contains luminance (Y) signal and separate chrominance (PR and PB) elements.

    Doom9's Forum lmno489 2010

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