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New Sampling Techniques Make Up For Lost Data

Posted by timothy on from the putting-stuff-back dept.

An unnamed reader writes: "Professors at Vanderbilt and the University of Connneticut have published a non-uniform sampling theory that could yield better quality digital signals than the standard Uniform sampling techniques pioneered by Shannon at Bell Labs. The Vanderbilt press release and link to the published paper can be found here."

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  1. Better Compression by sketerpot · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    This could make compression for a lot of things much better, when you don't mind the compression being lossy. Think of movie and picture files even more compressed than they are now. Then think of the reaction of the [MP,RI]AA!

    Happy downloading!

  2. Who gets rights to the technology by kenneth_martens · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If this is indeed a breakthrough, I hope the National Science Foundation (who is funding the research) decides to make the information free for anyone to use. The last thing we need is for them to kill the technology by attempting to retain control of it through copyrights, patents, and controlled licensing. Research like this should be published and given freely to the world community, not licensed to corporations to try to make a buck.

  3. Decompression? by dzym · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is this how ZeroSync's decompression algorithm works?