Closed Circuit Television

Joe Cieszynski9780750657280, 0-7506-5728-6

“The definitive book on the subject for the installation sector””

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Table of contents :
Front Cover……Page 1
Copyright……Page 5
Contents……Page 6
Preface……Page 10
Acknowledgements……Page 12
1 The CCTV industry……Page 14
The role of CCTV……Page 15
The CCTV industry……Page 17
CCTV signals……Page 20
Co-axial cable……Page 22
Ground loops……Page 29
Twisted pair cable……Page 33
Category 5 (Cat 5) cable……Page 35
Ribbon cable……Page 38
Fibre-optic cable……Page 39
Infra-red beam……Page 42
Microwave link……Page 43
CCTV via the telephone network……Page 45
Connectors……Page 47
Cable test equipment……Page 49
Light and the human eye……Page 53
Measuring light……Page 56
Light characteristics……Page 58
Artificial lighting……Page 59
Lens theory……Page 65
Lens parameters……Page 67
Zoom lenses……Page 83
Electrical connections……Page 85
Lens mounts……Page 89
Lens adjustment……Page 91
Lens finding……Page 93
The cathode ray tube……Page 96
The colour CRT……Page 100
Producing a raster……Page 102
Picture resolution……Page 105
Synchronization……Page 108
The luminance signal……Page 111
The chrominance signal……Page 112
Television signals……Page 115
Digital video signals……Page 118
Video compression……Page 121
MPEG-2 compression……Page 123
Wavelet compression……Page 126
Charge coupled device……Page 128
Deriving an interlaced raster……Page 129
CCD chip operation……Page 131
Colour imaging……Page 136
Camera operation……Page 139
White balance……Page 143
Camera sensitivity……Page 144
Camera resolution……Page 145
Camera operating voltages……Page 146
Specialized cameras……Page 147
Block diagram……Page 152
Monochrome monitor……Page 159
Monitor safety……Page 160
Terminator switches……Page 162
Ergonomics……Page 164
8 Recording equipment……Page 167
Video recording principles……Page 168
VHS (Video Home System)……Page 172
Super VHS……Page 174
Time-lapse recording……Page 177
Time-lapse VCR features……Page 180
VCR maintenance……Page 183
Video head cleaning……Page 185
Tape management and care……Page 187
Digital video tape……Page 188
Recording capacity……Page 190
Security of digital information……Page 194
Sequential switching……Page 195
Matrix switching……Page 200
The quad splitter……Page 204
Video multiplexers……Page 206
Video motion detection (VMD)……Page 212
10 Telemetry control……Page 215
Hard wired control……Page 216
Control data transmission……Page 218
Pan/tilt (P/ T) control……Page 220
Receiver unit……Page 222
Dome systems……Page 223
Data communications……Page 224
Camera mountings……Page 229
Towers and columns……Page 234
Pan/tilt units……Page 237
Monitor brackets……Page 242
Power supplies……Page 243
Measuring resolution……Page 247
System handover……Page 251
Preventative maintenance……Page 253
Corrective maintenance……Page 254
Fault location……Page 255
Oscilloscope default settings……Page 257
Glossary of CCTV terms……Page 259
Index……Page 272