Patent ID: 7110547

Claim:
A method of compressing an image file comprising: choosing an image to be compressed and decomposing the image into slices; finding a trend line for each slice and calculating trend line information describing the trend line; calculating for each slice a detrended image slice, by subtracting from each slice its trend line and storing the trend line information describing the trend line; choosing a chaotic system; applying selected digital initialization codes to the chaotic system such that each initialization code produces a periodic orbit and stabilizes the otherwise unstable periodic orbit; generating a basic waveform for each periodic orbit such that the basic waveform is in a one-to-one correspondence to the initialization code for the periodic orbit; selecting basic waveforms to be used with each detrended image slice and storing their corresponding initialization codes; and providing a compressed image file, wherein the compressed image file comprises the initialization codes and trend line information for each detrended slice.