Real Time Television and Voice on the Internet

Real-time video and sound via the Internet

Application Proposal: 2002

Abstract: Transmitting real time voice and television via package switching networks, like the Internet or ATM, is an extremely daunting task. The communication methods used in conventional analog voice and NTSC television transmissions have characteristics, which are not only different but entirely incompatible with the new package switching protocols. A solution may be found in a new Autosophy information theory, which defines all data communications by data content. In fact the conversion from circuit switching to packet switching is in many ways equivalent to the shift from conventional Shannon-based “information” to the new Autosophy conception of “information.” Along with real time data format conversion, Autosophy communications could offer high virtually lossless video compression, unbreakable codebook encryption, hardware independent communication protocols, and increased error resistance. Later enhancements could include motion detection, electronic motion compensation, robot vision, and automatic target recognition. The system will initially be implemented as an inexpensive PC plug-in module and later as a complete system on a chip.

Anticipated Applications: An inexpensive add-in module for the PC may allow real time secure teleconferencing via the Internet, ATM, or satellite WAN. All data and images would be highly compressed (using only lossless compression) and encrypted using exchangeable libraries on floppy discs or PCMCIA modules. Virtually lossless sound and video compression may be used to dramatically increase the storage capacities of CD-ROMs or Digital Video Discs (DVD). Storing the images in databases could also be improved by orders of magnitude and include automatic indexing. The final objective is a new method for compressed and secure multimedia communications on the Internet, encompassing such data types as text, voice, sound, high resolution digital images, and real time teleconferencing. Further development may lead to digital High Definition Television (HDTV) via radio or cable TV set-top boxes. Autosophy communications may eventually replace most conventional Shannon-based communications.

Keywords: Autosophy, Video compression, Sound compression, Internet

Available downloadable documents:

Proposal document – MS Word doc

Related Publication 2002 – Webpage htm

Related Publication 2001 – Webpage htm