diffusive scattering
when the photon
mean free path is much smaller than the scat-
terer dimensions and then the energy is scat-
tered uniformly in all directions.
DigiCipher HDTV system
a high-defini-
tion television (HDTV) digital transmission
television system proposed to the FCC by
the American Television Alliance composed
of General Instruments and Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
The DigiCipher
HDTV proposal submitted to the FCC in Au-
gust of 1991 was the first system to provide
an all digital television system that promised
spectrum compatibility with the existing tele-
vision channel allocation. The system used
quadrature amplitude modulation (16-QAM)
digital transmission at a 4.88 MHz symbol
rate.
digital
circuits or systems that employ two
valued (binary) signals denoted by the digits
0 and 1. Normally binary 1 is used to indicate
high/true and binary 0 to indicate low/false
(Positive Logic).
digital cellular radio
cellular radio prod-
uct designed to transmit its signals digitally.
digital communications
communication
techniques that employs binary bits to encode
information.
digital
European
cordless
telephone
(DECT)
a digital microcell system op-
erating in the 1.88–1.90 GHz band designed
to provide high-capacity wireless voice and
data services indoors and outdoors in small
local networks.
DECT systems use a
TDMA/FDMA multiple access scheme, with
10 radio frequency carriers, each 1728 kHz
wide, divided into 2
× 12 time slots. This
provides a total of 120 duplex traffic chan-
nels, with duplexing via TDD. The carrier bit
rate is 1152 kb/s. DECT portable terminals
have a peak transmit power of 250 mW.
digital filter
the computational process
or algorithm by which a sampled signal or
sequence of numbers (acting as an input) is
transformed into a second sequence of num-
bers termed the output signal. The compu-
tational process may be that of low-pass fil-
tering (smoothing), bandpass filtering, high-
pass filtering, interpolation, the generation of
derivatives, etc.
digital halftone
halftone technique based
on patterns of same size dots designed to sim-
ulate a shade of gray between white paper and
full colorant coverage.
digital image
(1) an array of numbers rep-
resenting the spatial distribution of energy in
a scene obtained by a process of sampling
and quantization.
(2) a discrete-value function ˆ
I(k, l) =
I (k1x, l1y) obtained by sampling, at equi-
spaced positions, the continuous function
I (x, y) which measures image intensity at
position
x, y of the image plane. I can be
single-valued for monochrome images or
m-
valued (usually
m = 3) for color images.
digital modulation signal generator
an
RF signal generator capable of providing sig-
nals with digital modulation formats such
as Gaussian minimum shift keying (GMSK),
Pi/4 differential quadrature phase shift key-
ing (DQPSK), and code division multiple ac-
cess (CDMA).
digital optical computing
optical com-
puting that deals with binary number opera-
tions, logic gates, and other efforts to even-
tually build a general-purpose digital optical
computer. In digital optical computing, new
optical devices are sought to replace elements
in an electronic computer. The digital opti-
cal computer may be primarily based on al-
ready known computer architectures and al-
gorithms.
digital optics
optical systems that handle
digital data.
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