YDbDr, sometimes written , is the colour space used in the SECAM (adopted in France and some countries of the former Eastern Bloc) analog colour television broadcasting standard. It is very close to YUV (used on the PAL system) and its related colour spaces such as YIQ (used on the NTSC system), YPbPr and YCbCr.
is composed of three components: , and . is the luminance, and are the chrominance components, representing the red and blue colour differences.
The three component signals are created from an original (red, green and blue) source. The weighted values of , and are added together to produce a single signal, representing the overall brightness, or luminance, of that spot. The signal is then created by subtracting the from the blue signal of the original , and then scaling; and by subtracting the from the red, and then scaling by a different factor.
These formulae approximate the conversion between the RGB colour space and .
From RGB to YDbDr:
From YDbDr to RGB:
You may note that the component of is the same as the component of . and are related to the and components of the YUV colour space as follows: