UHDTV-2 Mezzanine Compression Codec For Miniaturized and Simplified UHD Production System

Masayuki Miyazaki, Tsuyoshi Sakiyama, Takayuki Yamashita, Michael Van Dorpe

This paper highlights our developments in hardware compression for production applications. The underlying compression scheme shows a minimal quality degradation through multiple encode/decode cycles, making it suitable for production systems. The Tiny Codec (TICO) codec takes an uncompressed UHDTV-2 bitstream of 48 Gbits/s (59.94 Hz, 10 bits, 4:2:2) and compresses it to fit into a single 12G-Serial Digital Interface (SDI) cable. The device can also be fitted with IP interfaces. These changes permit significant reductions in cable and switcher complexity.

Print ISSN
Electronic ISSN
2160-2492
Published
2018-10
Content type
Original Research
Keywords
12G-SDI, mezzanine compression, SDI/IP infrastructure, TICO, UHDTV-2
DOI
10.5594/JMI.2018.2859138