The Language of Mobile Imaging

A Glossary of 1405 technical and Business Terms

Publication Date	April 2006
Publisher	Future Image Inc.
Product Type	Report
Pages	170
ISBN Number	not applicable
Product Code	FIM00003

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Summary

We published our first glossary of technical terms in February 2001, as an Appendix to our benchmark research report Wireless Imaging 2001 - Overcoming the Challenges. That glossary contained some 800+ terms and more than 59,000 words, mostly from the telecommunications and wireless networking industries. It was designed primarily to help readers from the imaging industry wade through the thicket of acronyms and technical jargon unavoidable in any discussion of wireless imaging.

Now five years later, we call this industry Mobile Imaging, and the Glossary has been enhanced and expanded to serve all the constituent industries - telecommunications, digital imaging, information management, and content. In addition to the telecommunications and networking terms targeted at readers from the imaging industry, there are hundreds of new terms to help readers from the other industries understand the acronyms and jargon from the digital imaging and digital video realms - terms relating to optics, opto-mechanics, image sensors, image processing, flash and video lighting, content formats, flash memory, and display technology. This edition of the Glossary now contains 1,405 terms and more than 112,000 words. In addition to the nearly 600 new terms, over half the original definitions have been expanded and updated with the latest information.

The goal is to provide a single source for deciphering the brands, buzzwords, and tribal language that inevitably pepper coverage of this multi-faceted and quintessentially convergent new industry.

Content

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.263 - 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.25 - XVGA [eXtended Video Graphic Array]
- Y: Yagi - YUV
- Z: ZigBee - Zoom Lens
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 - Moir 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