NuCore to reduce image file sizes
May 27, 2003 at 21:00:48 GMT
An
interesting story on EE Times today about a new image processor for digital
cameras from NuCore Technologies called CleanCapture. CleanCapture chips
lower noise in the analog stage, thefore improving compression using standard
algorithms. If an image file contains noise, the noise is treated as data
and deteriorates compression efficiency. "A JPEG file created by
NuCore's processor is on average a half or one third the size of conventionally
processed JPEG files" said Seiichiro Watanabe.