Three dimensional television (3DTV) and free viewpoint television (FTV) are believed to be the future of television broadcasting that would bring a more life-like and visually immersive home entertainment experience. These technologies will provide the users with the freedom to navigate through the scene and choosing a desired viewpoint. A desired viewpoint video can be synthesized at the recei...

The emergence of Interactive Digital Television (iDTV) opened a set of technological possibilities that go beyond those offered by conventional TV. Among these opportunities we can highlight interactive contents that run together with linear TV program (television service where the viewer has to watch a scheduled TV program at the particular time it is offered and on the particular channel it i...

. Canonical correltotion analysis identified two viewer types. The first viewer type--the one who used television out'of habit, to pass the time, and for entertainment--exhibited sizable levels of television viewing, af#inity (the importance of television in the life of the respondent) , and realism (how realistic the television portrayals were perceived to be). The second viewer type used tele...

CMOS RF front-end design for terrestrial and mobile digital television systems (May 2007) Jianhong Xiao Chair of Advisory Committee: Jose Silva-Martinez With the increasing demand for high quality TV service, digital television (DTV) is replacing the conventional analog television. DTV tuner is one of the most critical blocks of the DTV receiver system; it down-converts the desired DTV RF chann...

With the recent development of new three-dimensional (3D) multimedia services such as 3D television or free viewpoint television, a new 3D video format, called multiview video+ depth (MVD) is currently being investigated. MVD allows synthesizing as many views as required at the receiver side, thus providing smooth scene transitions and the ability to experience a new 3D perspective with each di...

background: excessive and uncontrolled television watching by children predisposes them to some risks such as developmental, social and psychological disorders. parents play an important role in nurturing their children and controlling the factors affecting their health. the aim of this study was to determine the impact of health education programs on parents' supervision skills to control thei...

The scarcity of radio spectrum has become problem in many applications that utilize the higher Radio Frequencies (RF). It is therefore important to manage this resource carefully to avoid the waste. In order to optimize the RF spectrum, in 1997, The United Kingdom launched the world’s first commercial digital terrestrial television service, aimed to switch off the analogue services between 2008...

Single carrier frequency division multiple access (SCFDMA) is one well-known scheme, which has recently become a preferred choice for uplink channels. Due to the usage of single carrier, the performance of SC-FDMA systems degrades in deep frequency selective fading channels. In this paper, we propose a structure of equalizer based on frequency domain decision feedback which could be used for mu...