Until now, compression algorithms such as the Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) have been implemented in software. This provided acceptable compression performance in many older systems. But with today's ...
Friday 20 June has been dubbed Gif Liberation Day as net users the world over celebrate the end of a costly patent agreement. The patent for the Lempel-Ziv-Welch, or LZW, compression algorithm is set ...