Haruhiko Okumura

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.

Haruhiko Okumura in 2013

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.


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