计算机专业英语Unit 7 Multimedia.ppt

大连理工大学出版社 Multimedia Passage One What is Multimedia? Training target: In this part, our target is to train your reading comprehension. We have made the flexible sentences strong black and marked the subject, predicate and have object of them. Try to grasp the main idea of these sentences. 主语、谓语、宾语 Passage One What is Multimedia? The concept of multimedia has been around for years. If we break the word multimedia into its component parts, we will get multi—meaning more than one, and media—meaning a form of communication. So what is multimedia? Multimedia is a kind of computer technology that combines text, audio, static graphics images, animations, and full-motion video. In fact, multimedia is just two media: sound and pictures. It is made from a mix of hardware and software, or machine and ideas. It presents information, shares ideas and evokes emotions. It enables you to see, hear, and understand the thoughts of others. In other words, it is a form of communication. You can control multimedia and interact with it. You can make it do what you want it to do. audio n. 音频 animation n.动画 video n. 视频 Passage One What is Multimedia? ◇ Audio Audio is referring to sound or to things which can be heard. The human ear Usually can hear a range of frequencies between around 20Hz~20KHz. But some animals can hear higher frequencies. The digitized sound can be easily processed by the computer software. Nowadays, virtually all professional sounds of recording and editing are digital. ◇ JPEG JPEG image-compression standard and file format define a set of compression methods for high-quality images, such as photographs, single video frames or scanned pictures. JPEG does not work very well when compressing text, line art or vector graphics. JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) abbr. 联合图像专家组 compression n. 压缩 frame n. 帧 Passage One What is Multimedia? ◇ MPEG MPEG standards are the main algorithms used to compress video and have been international stan