October 16, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News
Apple has investigated a method to make imperfections in compressed video files less visible to the human eye, a new patent application revealed this week shows.
The described technology would not do away with compression, which is necessary given bandwidth restrictions. Instead, it details a new technology that would mask artifacting that often appears when video files are compressed to reduce their file size.
“Disadvantageously, most video compression standards use lossy data compression techniques in which data determined by a particular compression algorithm to be of lesser importance to the overall content, but which is nonetheless discernible and objectionable to Read more…