An Autosophy Image Content-Based Television System

A first television system based on the Autosophy information theory is now being tested. The new television marks a major theoretical break from conventional television based on the Shannon information theory. In conventional television bit rates are determined entirely by hardware parameters, such as screen size, resolution, and scanning rates. The images shown on the screen are irrelevant, such that random noise video requires the same bit rate as any other video, whether blank or rich in content. In the new Autosophy-based television, in contrast, bit rates are determined entirely by video content, essentially motion and complexity within the images. It is the imaging hardware that becomes virtually irrelevant. A very high degree of visually lossless video compression is possible because only moving parts of the video are transmitted. Transmitted codes represent multi-pixel image clusters in a pre-grown hyperspace library. The system can dynamically and seamlessly reduce resolution of fast-moving objects when necessary to accommodate bandwidth restrictions. Ideally suited to the Internet environment, the new television features high resistance to delayed or dropped packets, a universal hardware-independent communication format, and optional "codebook" encryption for secure communications.