Multimedia Glossary: Y

YUV

also known as YCC, or analog YUV, or YCbCr

YUV is a color model that decomposes color in three components:
Y: Luminance (or chrominance)
U, Cb: Chroma channel, U axis, blue component
V, Cr: Chroma channel, V axis, red component
YUV is used in JPEG compression, as well as in the European TV standard, PAL.

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