Multimedia Computer Technology Basics and Applications

Author: Shen Tian
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Multimedia computer technology and its applications are a new field in the development of the computer industry today. The main contents include: the definition, classification, current status, and development trends of multimedia computers; the acquisition, processing, and output of video and audio signals; basic algorithms and current international coding standards for multimedia data compression encoding; the architecture of hardware and software systems for multimedia computers; it also discusses the development direction of the computer industry, integrating communication and multimedia technologies into CPU chips as an example; finally, it introduces three multimedia application fields and their core technologies: multimedia databases and content-based retrieval technology, multimedia authoring tools and synchronization technology, and multimedia communication and distributed multimedia systems.