Biographie de Charles Poynton
Charles Poynton is an independent contractor specializing in the physics, mathematics, and engineering of digital color imaging systems, including digital video, HDTV, and digital cinema (D-cinema). In the early 1980s, Charles designed and built the digital video equipment used by NASA to convert video from the Space Shuttle into NTSC. In 1990, he initiated Sun Microsystems' HDTV research project, and introduced color management technology to Sun. He was responsible for Sun's founding membership in what later became the International Color Consortium (ICC). Charles was a key contributor to current digital video and HDTV studio standards. A Fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), he was awarded the Society's prestigious David Sarnoff Gold Medal for his work to integrate video technology with computing and communications. Charles has taught many popular courses on video technology, HDTV, and color image coding, including many SIGGRAPH courses. He is the author of the widely respected book, A Technical Introduction to Digital Video, published in 1996. Charles lives in Toronto with his partner Barbara and their two girls, Quinn and Georgia. It is over their strenuous objections that he spells color without the u.