Friday, January 14, 2005
Allume image compression announcements
(Edited 14-Jan-05, 2:25 PM)
Allume Systems, Inc., has made two related announcements concerning image compression. One of these, if I understand it correctly, would use JPEG format, but replace the back-end compression which is done after the DCT compression with a more efficient scheme. The other is a completely new image file format, called Stuffit Image Format, or SIF.
The catch? This will be a patented technology.
Here's the link to the white paper (PDF) talking about the format. This paper misleadingly calls the new compression "lossless," but a closer look shows that this only means that it doesn't further degrade the image beyond the already lossy compression.
And here's lots of discussion and speculation on Slashdot.
# posted by Gary McGath @ 10:35 AM 
