What is YCbCr ? (Color Spaces)

YCbCr is a color space. that means YCbCr is another colour space just like RGB. I’ll explain bot more in the following sections

What is a color space?

When colors need to be used in digital media like cameras and laptops, colors need to be presented in numbers. because digital media can only understand numbers. :). Therefore color space is a set of rules that allows describing colors with numbers.

What is RGB ? An easy example for a color space.

RGB is a color space. I think you may know something about RGB. If not it is fine. I am going to tell you about it. RGB color space uses Red- Green-Blue component of the color and use those component to display the color. Using these three components, any color can be displayed. Following figure may give you a better understanding.

What is YCbCr ?

Now I am going to directly address the real question. YCbCr is also same like RGB. Another color space. But bit different spaces are taken.

Here Y is the luma component of the color. Luma component is the brightness of the color. That means the light intensity of the color. The human eye is more sensitive to this component.