Appendix E: Glossary 431
video scan rate, the higher the image quality and the
less noticeable the flicker.
WAV: (File extension for) a popular file format for
digitized audio signals.
White balance: In an electronic camera, this is the
adjustment of the amplifiers for the three color
channels (red, green and blue) so that white areas of the
scene do not show a color cast.
Y/C: Y/C is a color signal with two components:
brightness information (Y) and color information (C).
YUV: The color model of a video signal where Y
delivers the brightness information and U and V the
color information.
