scRGB
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| IEC 61966-2-2:2003 | |
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| Status | Published |
| First published | January 23, 2003[1] |
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| Committee | TC/SC: TC 100/TA 2 |
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| Base standards | sRGB |
| Related standards | Adobe RGB color space |
| Domain | Color space, color model |
scRGB is a wide color gamut RGB color space created by Microsoft and HP that uses the same color primaries and white/black points as the sRGB color space but allows coordinates below zero and greater than one. The full range is −0.5 through just less than +7.5.
Negative numbers enables scRGB to encompass most of the CIE 1931 color space while maintaining simplicity and backward compatibility with sRGB by not changing the primary colors. However this means approximately 80% of the scRGB color space consists of imaginary colors. Numbers greater than 1.0 allow high dynamic range images to be represented, though the dynamic range is less than other formats.[2]
Encoding
Two encodings are defined for the individual primaries: a linear 16 bit per channel encoding and a nonlinear 12 bit per channel encoding.
The 16 bit scRGB(16) encoding is the linear RGB channels converted by 8192x + 4096. Compared to 8-bit sRGB this ranges from almost Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.2+1⁄2 times the color resolution near 0.0 to more than 14 times the color resolution near 1.0. Storage as 16 bits clamps the linear range to −0.5..7.4999.
The 12-bit scRGB-nl encoding is the linear RGB channels passed through the same opto-electric conversion function as sRGB (for negative numbers use −f(−x)) and then converted by 1280x + 1024. This is exactly 5 times the color resolution of 8-bit sRGB, and 8-bit sRGB can be converted directly with 5x + 1024. The linear range is clamped to the slightly larger −0.6038..7.5913.
A 12-bit encoding called scYCC-nl is the conversion of the non-linear sRGB levels to JFIF-Y'CbCr and then converted by 1280Template:Prime + 1024, 1280Cb + 2048, 1280Cr + 2048. This form can allow greater compression and direct conversion to/from JPEG files and video hardware.
With the addition of an alpha channel with the same number of bits the 16-bit encoding may be seen referred to as 64 bit and the 12-bit encoding referred to as 48-bit. Alpha is not encoded as above, however. Alpha is instead a linear 0-1 range multiplied by 2n − 1 where n is 12 or 16.
The much newer DXGI scRGB HDR swapchains store the linear sRGB channels as 16-bit half float and has a much larger range of over ±60,000, without any enforced clamps.[citation needed] Storing linear sRGB values as floating point is very common in modern computer graphics software.
Usage
The first implementation of scRGB was the GDI+ API in Windows Vista. At WinHEC 2008 Microsoft announced that Windows 7 would support 48-bit scRGB (which for HDMI can be converted and output as xvYCC). The components in Windows 7 that support 48-bit scRGB are Direct3D, the Windows Imaging Component, and the Windows Color System and they support it in both full screen exclusive mode and in video overlays.[3][4]
Etymology
The origin of the sc in scRGB is shrouded in mystery. Officially it stands for nothing. According to Michael Stokes (the national and international leader of the International Electrotechnical Commission, or IEC, group working on scRGB), the name appeared when the Japanese national committee requested a name change from the earlier XsRGB (excess RGB). The two leading candidates for meaning are "specular RGB" because scRGB supports whites greater than the diffuse 1.0 values, and "standard compositing RGB" because the linearity, floating-point support, HDR (high dynamic range) support, and wide gamut support are ideally suited for compositing. This meaning also implicitly emphasizes that scRGB is not intended to be directly supported in devices or formats, since by definition scRGB encompasses values that are beyond both the human visual system and (even theoretically) realizable physical devices.[5]
References
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- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.HP; Microsoft; IEC (2003-01-23). IEC (ed.). "Multimedia systems and equipment - Colour measurement and management - Part 2-2: Colour management - Extended RGB colour space - scRGB". IEC. Retrieved 2021-04-18.
- ^ "HDR Encoding Comparison". Greg Ward. Retrieved 2010-10-25.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."WinHEC 2008 GRA-583: Display Technologies". Microsoft. 2008-11-06. Archived from the original on 2008-12-27. Retrieved 2008-12-06.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Windows 7 High Color Support". Softpedia. 2008-11-26. Retrieved 2008-12-06.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Anderson, Chris (April 11, 2007). Essential Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). Addison-Wesley Professional. p. 227. ISBN 978-0-321-37447-9.
External links
- The standard IEC 61966-2-2
- Annex B: Non-linear encoding for scRGB: scRGB-nl
- A working draft of IEC 61966-2-2 is available online.
- PCMag.com: Defining scRGB
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