4K TICO Encoder/TICO Decoder

Overview

TICO compression is new patent-pending visually lossless light compression specifically designed for the industry. This revolutionary technology is extremely tiny in hardware (FPGA, ASIC) , fast and powerful in software (CPU), robust for real-time operation with no latency.

Up to now, image and video are sent or stored uncompressed into many displays and systems such as cameras videos servers or recorders. TICO is a smart upgrade path to manage higher resolutions (4K, 8K…) and frame rates while assuring visual quality, keeping power and bandwidth at a reasonable budget and reducing significantly the complexity and cost of the system.

Key Features

Visually Lossless quality between 2:1 and 4:1.
Persistent and Robust: Indistinguishable image loss over multiple generations
Latency: Few Microseconds – very few line of pixels ( selectable from 1 to x)
Small complexity and ultra-compact codec: easy to implement in low-cost FPGA or ASIC. It uses little internal memory and no external memory.
Powerful , Real-time or faster than real-time in CPU
Compatible with different resolutions, from mobile to 4K/8K UHDTV, via multiple usual transport schemes.
Designed to be a standard for the industry-wide support: TICO compression technology is available on multiple software and hardware technologies. Code, hardware IP-cores and software libraries are licensable from intoPIX.

Benefits

Support higher Data stream (HD, 4K, 8K …) in existing systems or networks using the available pipeline bandwidth.
Increase the number of streams or the stream resolution that could be supported in a multi-stream configuration
Reduce significantly the internal video bandwidth (and power consumption) in systems such as mobile devices, cameras, video servers and displays.
Increase with cost-effectiveness the storage or video buffer capacity.
Solve display link limitation on TV, monitor and mobile panel to carry larger resolutions than could be support by a display link with uncompressed images and video in real time.
Reduce the number of lanes in a display interface needed to transport a display stream in order to save power, cost, or both. Or even enable the use of a lower link rate for applications where high link rates may not be possible

Applications

Digital Video Recorders
Video Servers, mixers , routers and switchers
Cameras (high-res, real-time or high speed)
Video monitor and displays
Frame grabbers and video capture devices
Video over IP systems
Industrial and surveillance
Cable extenders

Technical Specifications

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