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We did a patent search on some image compression technique we had developed independantly at a video surveillance company I worked for years ago. Didn't find anything. After the product had been on the market for a few years, some j*ck*ss kangaroo from Australia informed us we were infringing on his patent by transmitting compressed images over phone lines.
You can't win, so why try losing before you're even out of the gate?*
* - Lawyers are the only ones who actually succeed at the win-win scenario.
Marc
Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
Sensitivity and ethnic diversity means celebrating difference, not hiding from it. - Christian Graus
Every line of code is a liability - Taka Muraoka
Microsoft deliberately adds arbitrary layers of complexity to make it difficult to deliver Windows features on non-Windows platforms--Microsoft's "Halloween files"
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Marc Clifton wrote:
some j*ck*ss kangaroo from Australia informed us we were infringing on his patent by transmitting compressed images over phone lines.
Hey, I am doing that with my telemamography system...
John
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John M. Drescher wrote:
Hey, I am doing that with my telemamography system...
Off topic, I was wondering... When we tried something like this (for X-ray images) several years ago, the radiologists had a fit because they complained about loss of resolution. Is this an issue for you too, or has the technology advanced enough, both in terms of digitization and display? (or is this a moot point, because maybe you're taking the information directly off the machine???) And are you using lossy or lossless compression?
Marc
Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
Sensitivity and ethnic diversity means celebrating difference, not hiding from it. - Christian Graus
Every line of code is a liability - Taka Muraoka
Microsoft deliberately adds arbitrary layers of complexity to make it difficult to deliver Windows features on non-Windows platforms--Microsoft's "Halloween files"
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We digitize (using a laser digitizer) at 50um which results in (12 bit grayscale) images of 33MB for 8in by 10in images or 55MB for 10in by 12in. We use lossy JPEG2000 compression at a 75 to 1 compression rate. We also do some preprocessing with the images to improve the contrast. The doctors like the new images compaired to what was done in the past. However they want them to look like the digital mammography system that they have that does not use film. There are many advantages to the all digital system that we cannot duplicate even though we use a much higher resolution. The all digital system uses ~130um pixels instead of our 50um..
John
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Oh my lordy lord lord, what is the internet????
Does he have a patent on that to, I jot a compressed GIF file in the ads for this page 
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I think it was specifically related to point to point dial up connections.
Marc
Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
Sensitivity and ethnic diversity means celebrating difference, not hiding from it. - Christian Graus
Every line of code is a liability - Taka Muraoka
Microsoft deliberately adds arbitrary layers of complexity to make it difficult to deliver Windows features on non-Windows platforms--Microsoft's "Halloween files"
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Can one of you kind sirs please send me the source code to make my computer sing?
Thank you and please hurry up, it's very urgent. I need to submit an assignment tomorrow morning, and it's already 12:45am over here.
<<falls on="" the="" floor="" laughing="" and="" can't="" get="" up="">>
Anyway, better safe than sorry, as far as copyrights and trademarks are concerned.
Regards,
Rohit Sinha
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
- Mother Teresa
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"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person", don't just shown it in your mail, practice it! If you would do this again, PLEASE, leave the name Mother Teresa alone!!!! 
CodeProject is a place where people share knowledge, not faking a student's project. Shame on you, no wonder nowadays it is so difficult to find a C/C++ programmer.
Stupid!
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 You are a funny guy.
Regards,
Rohit Sinha
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
- Mother Teresa
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You are a bad bad person Rohit!;P
"Things are more like they are now than they ever were before."
-- Dwight Eisenhower
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Well, I try to please. 
Regards,
Rohit Sinha
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
- Mother Teresa
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Probably "bad bad person" is NOT meant in the sense of "funny"
Off to in ~39 days
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Probably.
Regards,
Rohit Sinha
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
- Mother Teresa
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It's the "new thing" these days, so it seems to me. Our company has this HUGE product branding initiative going on right now.
Today the software.
Tomorrow, the employees.
D.
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Microsoft's been doing that for ages. Ever notice how their product names aren't "XYZ" but "Microsoft XYZ"? Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Word, and so on.
Quick, who writes TurboTax? It might take you a little while to remember.
Quick, who writes Excel? Microsoft of course, because you've always heard it called "Microsoft Excel".
It's all about drilling the company name into people's minds.
--Mike--
Mister Sparkle is disrespectful to dirt.
Homepage | RightClick-Encrypt | 1ClickPicGrabber
"You have Erica on the brain" - Jon Sagara to me
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Yeah, our employers will start tatooing us with their company brand.. Like cattle 
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Since pressplay[^] deals with distributing and selling copyrighted material, you bet we have a full phalanx of lawyers working out all sorts of contracts with record labels, and then all sorts of statistics-keeping to make sure we pay the royalties that the contracts call for.
--Mike--
Yeah, payin' the bills with my mad programming skillz.
Defraggin' my hard drive for thrills.
Homepage | RightClick-Encrypt | 1ClickPicGrabber
"You have Erica on the brain" - Jon Sagara to me
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Sure we never check for intellectual property infringements, but we don't really do anything that would require it. If there is anything that we might need to check it would be something we only developed and use internally. I don't think we have to check on that stuff.
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Tom Welch wrote:
would be something we only developed and use internally. I don't think we have to check on that stuff
Hah! If I catch those damned sales boys using my patented double-left-click-alt-middle-click routine ever again I am going to sue their arses back to nappie land. *paul repositions his hidden webcam peering over the cubicle divider into the sales department* 
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
Macbeth muttered:
I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er
Shog9:
Paul "The human happy pill" Watson
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