was born in Ewell, Surrey, England, in 1940. He received the Diploma in technology with honors and the M.S. degree from Loughborough University of Technology (formerly Loughborough College of Technology), Loughborough, Leics., England, in 1961 and 1966, respectively. His master's thesis was on wide-band high frequency transistor amplifiers.During 1961-1962 he worked on camera tube development at the English Electric Valve Company, Chelmsford, Essex, England, and then spent two years in the Submerged Repeater
Abstract-A technique is propoked for transmitting two-tone imagesin. a progression of stages. In the first stage, information is transmitted to allow a crude reproduction of the picture. In the following stages, the quality of the received picture is improved until a copy identical to the original is obtained. The proposed technique uses a modification of the two-dimensional code recommended by the CCITT for transmission of facsimile. The main features of the coding scheme are as follows.
1) A crude version. of the image is obtained after approximately10-20 percent.of the total transmission time. A good version, with half the resolution in both the horizontal and vertical directions, is obtained after 50 percent of the total transmission time. 2) Compatibility with the CCITT codes for transmission of facsimile. 3) Total transmission time is only about 20 percent larger than the time required for nonprogressive transmission using the CCITT codes.