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- From: stewart@sample.eng.ohio-state.edu (Daniel Stewart)
- Subject: Re: GIF is not Huffman (was: Re: GIF Viewers)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.122414.26262@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu>
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- Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Electrical Engineering
- References: <BxBzFy.HHp@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1dlosrINNe6o@uni-paderborn.de> <1992Nov9.215248.7538@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <vgn1wfq@rpi.edu> <1992Nov10.064503.12973@netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 12:24:14 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov10.064503.12973@netcom.com>, fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes:
- > pooler@vccsouth29.its.rpi.edu (Robert Peter Poole) writes:
- >
- > >JPEG uses either Huffman compression or a kind of mathematical compression
- > >algorithm that is patented by IBM (?)
- >
- > Huh?
- >
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- > JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Engineering Group, and it is a
-
- Actually it is Joint Photographic Experts Group.
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- > compression standard developed by several different vendors. I believe
- > the compression scheme is in the public domain. It is based on Discrete
- > Cosine Transforms (DCT's) and is a lossy compression scheme. I suggest
- > anyone interested look in the comp.compression newsgroup.
-
- Both you and Mr. Poole are quite right, it uses the DCT and Huffman encoding. The
- other kind of mathematical compression Mr. Poole refers to is called arithmetic
- encoding, and indeed there are some legal issues preventing its use at this time.
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- Daniel Stewart
- stewart@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu
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