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As we know that RGB monitors requires separates signals for red, green, and blue components of the image but television monitors uses single composite signals. For this composite signal use YIQ color model.
But don't understand what's the significance of Y, I, Q components? Can anybody explain just the intuition rather than details.
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Colors are of philosophical interest for a number of reasons. One of the most important reasons is that color raises serious metaphysical issues, concerning the nature both of physical reality and of the mind. Among these issues are questions concerning whether color is part of a mind-independent reality, and what account we can give of experiences of color. These issues have been, and continue to be, inextricably linked with important epistemological and semantic issues.
- The opening paragraph from Color, on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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The question is fully answered in the third paragraph on the Wikipedia article on YIQ. Quoted:
The YIQ system is intended to take advantage of human color-response characteristics. The eye is more sensitive to changes in the orange-blue (I) range than in the purple-green range (Q)—therefore less bandwidth is required for Q than for I. Broadcast NTSC limits I to 1.3 MHz and Q to 0.4 MHz. I and Q are frequency interleaved into the 4 MHz Y signal, which keeps the bandwidth of the overall signal down to 4.2 MHz. In YUV systems, since U and V both contain information in the orange-blue range, both components must be given the same amount of bandwidth as I to achieve similar color fidelity.
Furthermore, the design of YIQ (i.e. the engineering decisions made to exploit then-available research into the human visual system) is described in the second paragraph:
In YUV, the U and V components can be thought of as X and Y coordinates within the color space. I and Q can be thought of as a second pair of axes on the same graph, rotated 33°; therefore IQ and UV represent different coordinate systems on the same plane.
YIQ color space corresponds to the encoding system used for NTSC color broadcast TV, which had as a requirement to use the absolute minimum bandwidth for the color information. Hence the wag's interpretation of the acronym, Never Twice Same Color.
