Haruhiko Okumura

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Haruhiko Okumura in 2013

Haruhiko Okumura (奥村 晴彦, Okumura Haruhiko) from Toshiba, Tokyo, Japan was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2016[1] for contribution to image processing and display technologies.

His public domain LZSS implementation from 1989 is used in many products.[2] He also worked on an adding an arithmetic-encoding step to form LZARI, the precursor to LZH.[3]

References

  1. ^ "2016 elevated fellow" (PDF). IEEE Fellows Directory.
  2. ^ Simtel.net mirror. Haruhiko Okumura implementation of 1989. Archived on February 3, 1999.
  3. ^ Haruhiko Okumura. History of Data Compression in Japan. Archived on January 10, 2016.