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  1. What is ABO™?
  2. Can ABO™ be used for any other data besides images?

  3. What are the benefits of using ABO™?

  4. Who will benefit from ABO™?

  5. How good is the quality of ABO™ vs traditional block processing image/ video compression techniques?

  6. Are there any governing bodies that need to approve the use of ABO™ or deeply entrenched industry standards that need to be supplanted?

  7. In the area of video, are there any plans to approach standards groups or industry trade groups to gain acceptance of ABO™ as a standard?

  8. How does ABO™'s encryption work and how it differs from other companies' approaches?

  9. Are there any other similar technologies or emerging technologies that would be a competitive threat to ABO™?

  10. Who is ABO™ competing against in each industry and which industries is ABO™ simply providing a new technology to the industry players for implementation?

  11. How can ABO™ be implemented?

  12. Does ABO™ run on Linux?

  13. What is your business model?
  14. How are users without ABO applications or compressors able to view the compressed files or images?

  15. If I am interested in ABO™, how do I get access to more information and evaluate ABO™?
  1. What is ABO ™ ?

    ABO ™ stands for Adaptive Binary Optimization. ABO ™ is a new and revolutionary approach to Digital Content Management.

    Please see ABO ™ Overview.

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  2. Can ABO ™ be used for any other data besides images?

    ABO ™ optimizes any form of digital content such as:-

    Please see ABO ™ Overview     and Solutions.

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  3. What are the benefits of using ABO ™ ?

    The benefits and advantages of ABO ™ includes

    Please see     ABO ™ Features.

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  4. Who will benefit from ABO ™ ?

    ABO ™ applies to all industries that deals with digital content.

    Specifically, beneficiaries are those that need:

    Please see     Solutions.

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  5. How good is the quality of ABO ™ vs traditional block processing image/ video compression techniques?

    ABO ™ surpasses current standards in terms of both its quality and compression ratios. We are able to achieve mathematically lossless quality at breakthrough ratios and speed. Our performance is significantly better as demonstrated by our ability to optimize echocardiograms by 30x as compared to current systems of around 7x-10x.

    Moreover, images optimized with ABO ™ will look clearer (no block distortion) as ABO ™ processes the whole image at once. Current systems does block processing (typically 8x8 pixel blocks) and their images looks "blotchy".

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  6. Are there any governing bodies that need to approve the use of ABO ™ or deeply entrenched industry standards that need to be supplanted?

    For certain industries, there will be some standards and protocols that we have to follow.

    For example in the medical imaging space, DICOM is the standards for medical imaging including transmission protocols and more. MatrixView is part of the standards committee and we are actively involved in WG4, the workgroup that governs compression.

    Certain applications in the medical industry, including Echocardiograms and Mammographs, standards set by DICOM are unclear as these current technologies are incapable of handling such huge file sizes. We are of the view that once our technology is launched into these areas, we will become the de-facto standard.

    Other approval and standards committees include ITU, ANSI etc.

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  7. In the area of video, are there any plans to approach standards groups or industry trade groups to gain acceptance of ABO ™ as a standard?

    Our approach is to target the non standards based industries first, where there is an urgent need for such a technology. Subsequently, as we gain acceptance from the high end users, we would approach these bodies to make our technology a standard.

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  8. How does ABO ™ 's encryption work and how it differs from other companies' approaches?

    Our encryption process is unique. During our optimization process, the data is also encrypted simultaneously. This involves ABO ™ 's ability to shift the bits within the data in such a way as to retain the integrity of the info yet providing sufficient security such that no other codecs except the one customized to read the data will be able to decrypt and decode the info.

    We do not use any 3 rd party encryption software and thus no added complexities, files sizes increase etc. However, such encryption software can be used over and above ABO ™ to give the data added security if so required.

    Current media content players are interested in this as we could potentially help to solve some of the piracy issues by making each movie sold in the market unique to that particular buyer.

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  9. Are there any other similar technologies or emerging technologies that would be a competitive threat to ABO ™ ?

    None that we are aware of right now. But as technology development is faster than even Moore's Law, we do not discount the possibilities of such occurrences.

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  10. Who is ABO ™ competing against in each industry and which industries is ABO ™ simply providing a new technology to the industry players for implementation?

    We are not supplying new technology (if new technology is classified as having to change all aspects of the business including equipment, workflow etc). We are in the business of enhancing current solutions. Example would include movie studios using ABO ™ to store their film archives instead of using JPEG2000. Nothing much would have changed except for more efficient storage, more capacity, and higher speed of workflow.

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  11. How can ABO ™ be implemented?

    Depending on the application, ABO ™ can be implemented either on hardware or software.

    Hardware implementation would enable faster throughput thus ideally suited for applications that requires speed and reliability. Industries like Medical Imaging, Defense and High end digital content archiving are some examples that would prefer a hardware based implementation. These can come in the form of embedded chips, add on cards or even plug & play boxes.

    Software based implementation would be ideally suited for applications that has lesser demands than those mentioned above. Examples are document imaging, picture or even video viewing. We will provide APIs or SDKs to enable the smooth development/integration of our technology into existing software applications/platforms.

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  12. Does ABO ™ run on Linux?

    ABO ™ is platform independent. Currently, our technology has been tested and trialed on Windows and we are in the process of testing other platforms as well.

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  13. What is your business model?

    MatrixView's focus is on the development of our core technology and thus our business model is to license our technology to potential customers and partners.

    Depending on the application, we may even jointly develop the product and co-own it with our partners.

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  14. How are users without ABO applications or compressors able to view the compressed files or images?

    We are providing free downloadable viewers for users to view the compressed images.

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  15. If I am interested in ABO ™ , how do I get access to more information and evaluate ABO ™ ?

    Please refer to our     Contact page for more information.

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