Autosophy Image Compression for Packet Network
Television
An alternative vision at
“Information” in television
Authors: Klaus Holtz,
Published / Presented at: Wescon/95, Microelectronics, Communication Technology, MOSCONE CONVENTION CENTER, San Francisco, California, November 7 – 9, 1995. ISBN# 0-7803-2636-9
Level: Expert Television
Abstract: Transmitting graphics or live television on the Internet or
Information Superhighway will be very slow and expensive unless video
compression is used to reduce the transmission bandwidth. There are three basic
ways to transmit images and video. Conventional bit stream transmissions depend
on very high-speed channels, such as fiber optics. Lossy cosine transforms and
motion compensation in the JPEG or MPEG-2 standards will reduce the bandwidth
but at the expense of the image quality. The more the images are compressed,
the worse the distortions become until the image quality becomes unacceptable.
A new Autosophy information theory may now provide a third alternative. In the
new information theory, “Information” is dependent only on image content or
“Novelty” and “Movement” within the images. Information is redefined as
something not already known to the receiver. Everything the receiver already
knows is redundant and need not be communicated. “Knowledge” is accumulated in
tree networks that grow by themselves like data crystals. The result is a new
kind of television in which the bandwidth is determined only by the image
content or what is to be shown on the screen. Hardware parameters, such as
image size, resolution or frame rates become irrelevant. Very high lossless
image compression is achieved without sacrificing image quality. The
transmission method is especially suitable for packet switching networks and
provides optional encryption for network security. It can also be used to
transmit still image graphics on the Internet or to store Multimedia moving
images in PC’s.
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