Music streaming and image / video transfer are technologies that are indispensable in modern society, but in order to use these technologies, it is indispensable to 'compress a huge file size to a ...

Compression is the science of making data representations smaller, in order to decrease the data's bandwidth and storage requirements. Compression applications are everywhere: in computers (WinZip and ...

In the last two columns (Part 1, Part 2), we contrasted a number of compression tools that you might use to free up disk space on your systems. In comparing compression utilities, the most important ...

Efficient data compression and transmission are crucial in space missions due to restricted resources, such as bandwidth and storage capacity. This requires efficient data-compression methods that ...

The GIF format uses the LZW compression algorithm, which was patented by Unisys, and publishers of applications that read and write GIF87a and GIF89a images were required to obtain a license and pay ...

Friday 20 June has been dubbed Gif Liberation Day as net users the world over celebrate the end of a costly patent agreement. The patent for the Lempel-Ziv-Welch, or LZW, compression algorithm is set ...

A lossless compression algorithm based on the LZW with compression ratios of 50 ? 60%, using 2K of RAM and 80% or more with 8K or 16K.