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HCL

Hue, Chroma, and Luminance

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HCV

Hue Chroma Value

Miscellaneous » Unclassified

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DC

Duplicate Chroma

Miscellaneous » Photography & Imaging

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LCH

Luminosity, Chroma, and Hue

Computing » Hardware

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HVC

Hue Value and Chroma

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YCbCr

Y′ is the luma component and CB and CR are the blue-difference and red-difference chroma components.

Miscellaneous » Colors

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LCH

Lightness Chroma Hue

Miscellaneous » Colors

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CVBS

Chroma Video Blanking and Sync

Miscellaneous » Unclassified

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HC

High Chroma

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ECIC

Euro Chroma Institute of Cosmetology

Governmental » Institutes

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HCL

Hue Chroma and Luminance

Miscellaneous » Unclassified

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LCH

Luminosity Chroma and Hue

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LCH

Luminance Chroma and Hue

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LCH

Lightness chroma and hue

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HVC

Hue Value Chroma

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CPLL

Chroma Phase Locked Loop

Academic & Science » Electronics

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HVC

Hue Value Chroma

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What does chroma key mean?

Chroma key
Chroma key compositing, or chroma keying, is a visual effects/post-production technique for compositing (layering) two images or video streams together based on color hues (chroma range). The technique has been used in many fields to remove a background from the subject of a photo or video – particularly the newscasting, motion picture, and video game industries. A color range in the foreground footage is made transparent, allowing separately filmed background footage or a static image to be inserted into the scene. The chroma keying technique is commonly used in video production and post-production. This technique is also referred to as color keying, colour-separation overlay (CSO; primarily by the BBC), or by various terms for specific color-related variants such as green screen, and blue screen – chroma keying can be done with backgrounds of any color that are uniform and distinct, but green and blue backgrounds are more commonly used because they differ most distinctly in hue from most human skin colors. No part of the subject being filmed or photographed may duplicate the color used as the backing.It is commonly used for weather forecast broadcasts, wherein a news presenter is usually seen standing in front of a large CGI map during live television newscasts, though in actuality it is a large blue or green background. When using a blue screen, different weather maps are added on the parts of the image where the color is blue. If the news presenter wears blue clothes, his or her clothes will also be replaced with the background video. Chroma keying is also common in the entertainment industry for visual effects in movies and video games.

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