Integrated video and sound compression chipsets

Mass produced tiny chipsets could have applications in digital cameras and cellular telephones

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Abstract: There is no doubt that Autosophy technology will eventually replace most applications based on the outdated Shannon theory, in essence our entire communications infrastructure. Huge market potentials are opening up for video and sound compression using special chipsets. To avoid dead-end solutions this should proceed in the following three steps.

Software only: Autosophy video and sound compression can be implemented in software to greatly improve the Internet. However, real time video compression may not be possible using software only. Experimental results show that it takes about one second per video frame to convert a movie into 64bit Autosophy codes. This means that a one-hour movie would require 24 hours for conversion, unless using Content Addressable Memories (CAM). Real-time video playback is possible using software only. Real time sound encoding and playback is possible using software only. The purpose of the software simulations would be to refine the algorithms to obtain experimental results before committing to an expensive chipset design. The copyrighted software may be licensed to large movie and music distributors, for free downloading to its customers. This could greatly improve Internet video and sound transmissions and the storing of movies on DVDs.

Integrated chipsets: Once the performance of the Autosophy algorithms has been verified, by experimental data, then chipsets may be designed. This would be a very large and expensive project, which could, however, lead to a huge market potential ranging from cellular telephones to video cameras all the way to High Definition Television sets. These chipsets should be tiny, low power, real time, and most importantly very inexpensive for a consumer market. The chipsets should not contain an embedded microprocessor or Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) because such chipsets could not compete in size, speed, power consumption, or price with simple dedicated chipsets for video encoding, video retrieval, sound encoding and sound retrieval. All four functions may be merged into a single chip. A video encoder chip, for example, should only have an input for analog or digital video and an output for 64bit Autosophy codes.

Shannon to Autosophy conversion: Eventually new video cameras and monitors will become available which are designed according to the Autosophy information theory. Current video cameras, for example, are designed according to the Shannon theory in which pixels are scanned from left to right and from top to bottom. The new chipsets would convert the Shannon data into 64bit Autosophy “content” codes for transmission or storage. The receiver chipset would convert the 64bit Autosophy codes back into Shannon data pixels. This is obviously very illogical. If cameras would be designed according to the Autosophy theory, to generate 64bit “content” codes, and the monitors would display the Autosophy “content” clusters, then the chipsets would become redundant. Such invention and design is already available. Chipsets may have only a few years of product life before they become redundant.

Applications: Conversion software for movies and music could reduce transmissions via the Internet by orders of magnitude for faster transmissions in the Internet’s intermittent packet stream and reduced storage on CD’s or DVD’s. Tiny chipsets could expand one-minute video storage for conventional video cameras into more than an hour video storage using Autosophy codes. This could vastly improve cellular telephones, credit card-sized video cameras, and make HDTV finally become a reality. Once the Autosophy revolution is completed, then chipsets may no longer be required.

Keywords: Autosophy, Information theories, video compression, sound compression, Universal data formats, Multimedia communication, Internet Quality of Service (QoS), data compression, encryption.

Available downloadable documents:

Recent publication 2006 – Network-centric systems – Webpage htm

Proposal 2006 – Satellite - Internet – Webpage htm

Publication 2004 – Data compression – Webpage htm

Proposal 2002 – Video compression – Webpage htm

Publication 2003 – Universal data format – Webpage htm

Publication 1998 – Data compression – Webpage htm