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Super high compression of line drawing dataModels which can be used to accurately represent the type of line drawings which occur in teleconferencing and transmission for remote classrooms and which permit considerable data compression were described. The objective was to encode these pictures in binary sequences of shortest length but such that the pictures can be reconstructed without loss of important structure. It was shown that exploitation of reasonably simple structure permits compressions in the range of 30-100 to 1. When dealing with highly stylized material such as electronic or logic circuit schematics, it is unnecessary to reproduce configurations exactly. Rather, the symbols and configurations must be understood and be reproduced, but one can use fixed font symbols for resistors, diodes, capacitors, etc. Compression of pictures of natural phenomena such as can be realized by taking a similar approach, or essentially zero error reproducibility can be achieved but at a lower level of compression.
Document ID
19760015840
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Contractor Report (CR)
Authors
Cooper, D. B.
(Brown Univ. Providence, RI, United States)
Date Acquired
September 3, 2013
Publication Date
April 1, 1976
Subject Category
Computer Operations And Hardware
Report/Patent Number
NASA-CR-147158
Report Number: NASA-CR-147158
Accession Number
76N22928
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NSG-5036
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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