Abstract: A new kind of Autosophy television is based on a new mathematical theory of "learning" and a new information theory. Unlike in conventional television the transmission bandwidth depends only on the image "content", such as "novelty" and "movement" within the images. Hardware parameter, such as: image size, resolution or scanning rates, become irrelevant. Television images are compared with image fragments stored in a special hyperspace tree library. The largest matching image fragments are encoded into digital "superpixel" codes each of which may contain any size image portion. Only the moving portions in the images are selected for encoding and transmission. The new television is especially suitable for the new packet switching networks, such as ATM, Internet or the Information Superhighway.

Abstract: An integrated memory device can be used as a Content Addressable Memory (CAM) or as a Random Addressable Memory (RAM) for applications in data compression, video compression or Autosophy robots. Memory addressing employs long chains of Field Effect Transistors, forming a logical AND function, and programmable non volatile connection cells which can be implemented either as programmable fuses or memory transistors including PROM, EPROM, EEPROM or FLUSH technologies. Each connection cell is programmable for either connection or non connection. Each chain of Field Effect Transistors may generate any arbitrary output address code which is programmed via diodes and the same non volatile connection cells used to decode the input data words. The device combines extreme low power consumption with very fast search access speed. Devices implemented as flexible thin foils can be folded into very large, compact and robust memory arrays.

Abstract: In pyramidal data storage, a single address is used to identify any arbitrary large group of related data. The data items are stored in the form of multi level progressions in which lower level data items are combined to form higher and higher level data items in the form of a pyramid. The invention provides a method and apparatus to store and retrieve pyramidal data groups from a computer memory.