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Pixelization is a video- and photography-editing technique where an image, or part of it, is blurred by displaying part or all of it at a lower resolution. It is also a censorship technique. A familiar example of pixelization can be found in television news and documentary film production, where vehicle license plates and faces of suspects at crime scenes are routinely obscured to maintain the presumption of innocence, and footage showing nude genitalia, buttocks, or breasts is likewise obscured in some media – often on network television in the US, before the Watershed (television) in other countries, in newspapers or general magazines, or in places where the public cannot avoid seeing the image such as on billboards. However in cinemas, on DVD and subscription television services, in pornography except for few countries where the law requires it, and in men's magazines pixelization is not usually used for this purpose. When obscene language is censored by a bleep censor, the mouth of the speaker may be pixelized to prevent lip reading.
The obscured image may not be truly offensive, but merely something production doesn't want to show. For example, they may be wanting to save something for a proper reveal, or they may want to avoid unintentional product placement (censorship for this purpose is more common on reality shows). For most censorship purposes, pixelization has been mostly supplanted by simply blurring the image, so as to appear one is looking at the image through fogged glass.
In early 2006, the website Ironic Sans noticed with tongue in cheek that reality TV shows pixelize logos on clothing so much, that it might make reality TV producers' lives easier if there were a line of pre-pixelated clothes for Reality TV stars . The idea was picked up by major media, and the shirts have been featured on television, and in fashion and entertainment publications worldwide.
- On the famous TV show COPS (TV series) producers blur faces of suspects and witnesses who refuse to sign a release form.
It has also been used for artistic effects, notably in the art print The Wave of the Future, a reinterpretation of Hokusai The Great Wave at Kanagawa. In this updated print, the image of the large ocean wave shifts from the traditional style of the Japanese woodcut print through a pixelated image and finally to a wireframe model computer graphics image.
The pixelization effect is a standard graphics filter, available in all but the most basic bitmap graphics editors.
For equivalent censorship, black rectangular or square boxes known as censor bars may be used to cover parts of images completely, for example a black box over the eyes can be used rather than pixelating the entire face.
Legal standards Pornography in Japan laws require that genitals in movies be obscured.
In Thailand, Malaysia, and some surrounding countries, restrictions are placed on TV broadcasting of cigarettes being smoked2Bangkok.com: "Smoking on Thai TV" Retrieved February 15, 2007, alcohol being drunk, or guns being pointed at people. Pixelation is the preferred method of dealing with this 'objectionable' content.
See also
- Censorship
- Reverse video
- Tape delay (broadcasting)