Euclid Discoveries' Video Compression Technology Now Works on Movies and TV Shows

Euclid Discoveries' Video Compression Technology Now Works on Movies and TV Shows

Euclid Leverages Improved Object-based Compression to Tackle New Video Types

CONCORD, Mass., Sept. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Euclid Discoveries (www.eucliddiscoveries.com) announces a major advancement in the evolution of its EuclidVision(TM) video compression technology, which now has applications for general entertainment video. Previous versions of EuclidVision achieved compression ratios as high as 15,168 to 1, a 460% improvement over the MPEG-4 standard, which is the state of the art for digital video.

Because EuclidVision now works with any type of video, the door has opened to applying this technology to both portable and streaming video applications. These types of applications would include wireless streaming of video to cell phones and dramatic increases in storage for personal electronics.

"The previous version of the technology proved that EuclidVision could achieve unprecedented compression improvements over the state of the art, but it was limited by the types of video it could use," said Euclid Discoveries CEO Richard Wingard. "Recent integration of our underlying compression technology allows EuclidVision to work with almost any type of video, including movies and TV-shows, and not just the 'head and shoulders' video common to video conferencing applications."

This announcement heralds a major integrative development of the firm's Object-based Compression, or "OBC," technology. Euclid defines OBC as technology that analyzes salient structure in the video to achieve higher compression ratios. This application of OBC is a major advancement when considering other compression technologies, including MPEG-4, which is based on "Discrete Cosine Transform" or "DCT."

These continual improvements in the company's OBC technology gives it the ability to focus on smaller and subtler objects in the video, which is what enables EuclidVision to diversify the types of video it can compress.

Euclid Discoveries' most recent breakthroughs were driven by its technology team, led by Chief Technology Officer Charles Pace. Their work has also helped generate new discoveries that have resulted in the company recently filing its 20th patent with PCT and the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

"Our team has been steadily extending object-based compression for years, but we feel this new refinement is the critical piece to making this type of Computer Vision technology broadly applicable in the commercial sector," said Charles. "Our initial strategy had been to push for higher and higher compression rates and this additional ability to process television or movie content is the key development that many technologists have been waiting for."

The architects of MPEG-4 technology anticipated OBC as the future video standard but, prior to Euclid Discoveries, no firm had managed to make OBC commercially viable. The MPEG-4 standard describes the parts of a rudimentary form of object-based compression through "Video Object Planes," facial modeling, and 3D object modeling -- providing only a definition of these concepts without providing the means of applying these directly towards the goal of high compression ratios.

"Our recent accomplishments should effectively silence the naysayers who said that EuclidVision was a one-trick pony that would only work with video-conferencing type applications," said Euclid Discoveries President Robert Werner. "Now that we have shown the breadth of EuclidVision in tackling different video types, we plan to go deep, achieving further breakthroughs in compression rates."

About Euclid Discoveries

Euclid Discoveries researches and develops Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition technologies representing the next-generation video processing and compression technology. In order to meet consumer demand for high quality video on a multitude of devices, the company developed EuclidVision(TM). EuclidVision is a proprietary technology, which will increase video compression ratios by an order of magnitude -- reducing file size dramatically and removing existing bandwidth constraints currently blocking the ubiquitous transmission of high quality video. This technology has clear potential applications in a host of industries beyond consumer electronics and telecommunications including surveillance, and image mining. Euclid Discoveries has also developed a rigorous testing environment, EuclidStudio(TM), to evaluate video compression and quality for MPEG-4 and other compression technologies. For more information on Euclid Discoveries and its offerings, please visit www.eucliddiscoveries.com.

Source: Euclid Discoveries

CONTACT: Elizabeth Marmion, Euclid Discoveries, +1-978-369-8303,
Fax +1-978-369-1604, info@eucliddiscoveries.com; David Zweifler,
dzweifler@schwartz.com, or Daniel Charles, both of G.S. Schwartz,
+1-212-725-4500, Fax +1-212-725-9188

Web site: http://www.eucliddiscoveries.com/

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