DATA COMPRESSION AND ENCODING USING COLORS

Abstract:

The coding formats available today like the barcodes have proved to be successful because of their various applications like coding of products by a manufacturer, coding of books by a publisher, etc. The continuous advancement in the sensors technology can provide advancement in the coding format. The improvement in color sensors technology can give rise to a better and efficient coding technique. One such method “color cells technology” is proposed and described in this thesis.

Due to its advantages like the compactness, security, and efficiency, this code is well suited to be used as a substitute for all available codes like the barcode.

In this paper, we provide some insight into color perception, measurement, specification, and look at couple of ways on how data can be produced by a color sensor. Then we study the designing of the color cells encoding technology and its decoding using color sensor and a method to compress data using colors.