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was named

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(IEEE) in 2016 ''for contribution to image processing and display technologies''. His

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LZSS implementation from 1989 is used in many products. He also worked on an adding an arithmetic-encoding step to form LZARI, the precursor to LZH.Haruhiko Okumura
History of Data Compression in Japan.
Archived on January 10, 2016.

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