Abstract: A method of representing image data comprising a spatial pyramid data structure of order L, said method comprising: providing an initial representation of said image data, said representation comprising a set of lattices of level 0; connecting each said lattices of level 0 to said image data; performing L reduction steps each comprising: for each one of at least one current lattice of the current level, optionally blurring said current lattice; providing a plurality of down sampled sub-lattices of said current optionally blurred lattice, said at least one current lattice being the parent lattice of said respective plurality of down sampled sub-lattices; and connecting said plurality of down sampled sub-lattices to said respective parent lattice, wherein said plurality of down sampled sub-lattices of the current level, comprise the set of current lattices for the next level.

Abstract: A method of increasing temporal resolution: a) provides an original video having a given spatial resolution; b) compresses a first frame of said original video using any image compression method; and c) repeatedly compresses a next frame of said original video using the steps of: i. providing a current video comprising the already compressed video frames, said current video having an initial spatial resolution; ii. repeatedly reducing the spatial resolution of said current video and the spatial resolution of said next frame of the original video, to produce a lowest level spatial resolution current video and a lowest level spatial resolution next frame of the original video; and iii. compressing said lowest level spatial resolution next frame of the original video to produce a lowest level compressed next frame.

Abstract: A method of increasing temporal resolution the method a) provides a current video having an initial spatial resolution and an initial temporal resolution, the current video has a temporally reduced video of an original video; b) repeatedly reduces the spatial resolution of the current video and the original video to produce a lowest spatial resolution current video and original video, the lowest spatial resolution current video having the initial temporal resolution; c) increases the temporal resolution of the lowest spatial resolution current video; d) increases the temporal resolution of the next higher spatial resolution current video; and e) repeats step (d) up to the initial spatial resolution. Steps c) and d) further include calculating enhancement data and using the enhancement data to enhance the increased temporal resolution of the current video, the calculating including using the respective reduced spatial resolution original video.

Abstract: A method of video compression comprising: (a) receiving a first block of video frames; (b) fully compressing the first one or more video frames and partially compressing the other frames in said block of video frames; (c) optionally adding a next block of video frames to the already processed video frames, wherein said processed video frames comprises fully decoded video frames and partially decoded video frames; (d) fully compressing the next one or more frames and partially compressing other frames in said already processed video frames and said optionally next block of video frames; and repeating steps (c) and (d).

Abstract: A method of decoding and encoding video, the encoding method comprising: receiving a video; performing a shrink operation on the received video, the shrink operation comprising: creating a first lower resolution video from the video; and sequentially creating additional N?1 lower resolution videos, each one of the additional lower resolution videos created from the preceding lower resolution video; compressing the lowest resolution video; creating a lowest resolution reconstructed video by decompressing the lowest resolution compressed video; performing a first raise operation on the lowest resolution reconstructed video, the first raise operation comprising sequentially creating N higher resolutions reconstructed videos, each one of the higher resolution reconstructed videos created from the preceding lower resolution reconstructed video by: creating a higher resolution video from the lower resolution reconstructed video; computing a residual between the respective lower resolution video and the created high

Abstract: This invention relates to a method of increasing spatial/temporal resolution including the steps of (a) providing a current video having an initial temporal/spatial resolution; (b) repeatedly reducing the temporal/spatial resolution of the current video to produce a lowest temporal/spatial resolution current video; (c) increasing the spatial/temporal resolution of the lowest temporal/spatial resolution current video; (d) increasing the spatial/temporal resolution of the next higher temporal/spatial resolution current video; and (e) repeating step (d) up to the initial temporal/spatial resolution.

Abstract: A method of video compression comprising: (a) receiving a first block of video frames; (b) fully compressing the first one or more video frames and partially compressing the other frames in said block of video frames; (c) optionally adding a next block of video frames to the already processed video frames, wherein said processed video frames comprises fully decoded video frames and partially decoded video frames; (d) fully compressing the next one or more frames and partially compressing other frames in said already processed video frames and said optionally next block of video frames; and repeating steps (c) and (d).

Abstract: A method for compressing digital data. The method comprises creating a plurality of wavelet coefficients associated with an input signal by iteratively performing a plurality of wavelet transforms to a plurality of sub-bands of the input signal, adjusting a zerotree dataset according to each the wavelet transform, and encoding the plurality of wavelet coefficients according to the zerotree dataset.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method of increasing spatial/temporal resolution including the steps of (a) providing a current video having an initial temporal/spatial resolution; (b) repeatedly reducing the temporal/spatial resolution of the current video to produce a lowest temporal/spatial resolution current video; (c) increasing the spatial/temporal resolution of the lowest temporal/spatial resolution current video; (d) increasing the spatial/temporal resolution of the next higher temporal/spatial resolution current video; and (e) repeating step (d) up to the initial temporal/spatial resolution.

Abstract: A method of decoding and encoding video, the encoding method comprising: receiving a video; performing a shrink operation on the received video, the shrink operation comprising: creating a first lower resolution video from the video; and sequentially creating additional N?1 lower resolution videos, each one of the additional lower resolution videos created from the preceding lower resolution video; compressing the lowest resolution video; creating a lowest resolution reconstructed video by decompressing the lowest resolution compressed video; performing a first raise operation on the lowest resolution reconstructed video, the first raise operation comprising sequentially creating N higher resolutions reconstructed videos, each one of the higher resolution reconstructed videos created from the preceding lower resolution reconstructed video by: creating a higher resolution video from the lower resolution reconstructed video; computing a residual between the respective lower resolution video and the created high

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for compressing and decompressing digital data. The method for compressing digital data comprises a number of steps: a) generating a vector-valued dataset according to the digital data, b) transforming the vector-valued dataset into multiwavelet coefficients, and c) entropically coding the multiwavelet coefficients. The method for decompressing digital data is substantially made up of the same steps as the method for compressing digital data but functioning in a reverse manner.

Abstract: A method for compressing digital data. The method comprises creating a plurality of wavelet coefficients associated with an input signal by iteratively performing a plurality of wavelet transforms to a plurality of sub-bands of the input signal, adjusting a zerotree dataset according to each the wavelet transform, and encoding the plurality of wavelet coefficients according to the zerotree dataset.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for compressing and decompressing digital data. The method for compressing digital data comprises a number of steps: a) generating a vector-valued dataset according to the digital data, b) transforming the vector-valued dataset into multiwavelet coefficients, and c) entropically coding the multiwavelet coefficients. The method for decompressing digital data is substantially made up of the same steps as the method for compressing digital data but functioning in a reverse manner.