Date of birth: 1950
Website: www.poynton.com

Charles Poynton specializes in the physics, mathematics, and engineering of digital colour (color!) imaging systems, including digital still cameras, digital video, HDTV, and digital cinema (D-cinema). He is involved in engineering wide colour gamut (wide colour gamut) systems, including xvYCC. He does technology forecasting, systems modelling, algorithm development, video signal processing architecture, colour characterization and calibration, and image quality assessment.

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