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...pparatus for Carry-over Control in Arithmetic Entropy Coding". US 5,025,258, June 18, 1991, D.L. Duttweiler, "Adaptive Probability Estimator for Entropy Encoding/Decoding". The important one is the second one. The link for it is: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&r=1&l=50&f=G&d=PALL&s1=4905297.WKU.&OS=PN/4905297&RS=PN/4905297 IBM holds the patent for arithmetic encoding. I think. Here is what I don't understand. The patent was applied for in 1988 and awarded in 1990. If you looking...

On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 23:44, Josh Coalson wrote: > Miroslav did some experiments with searching for optimum blocksize. > from what I remember it made at best a couple percent difference. > there was a thread about it here a while back. > Did his changes make it in? I can think of a coupla ways to approach this and I'd like to hear about what he tried. A couple of % doesnt seem

--- Wayde Milas <wmilas@rarcoa.com> wrote: > The last one is truely frightening. AT&T hold the patent. The link > for > it is at: > http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&r=1&l=50&f=G&d=PALL&s1=5025258.WKU.&OS=PN/5025258&RS=PN/5025258 > Trying to read and grok it is mind numbing. the synopsis mentions its > for arithmitic encoding, but the best I can tell from trying to read > it, >...

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