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1. A method of encoding source data to generate corresponding encoded data for transmission or storage, wherein the source data includes at least one of: audio data, image data, video data, graphics data, multi-dimensional data, and measurement data, the method comprising:
matching one or more portions of the source data to one or more elements in one or more databases, wherein the one or more elements are representative of corresponding one or more data blocks, and recording reference values which relate the one or more portions of the source data to the one or more matched elements; and including the reference values in the encoded data together with the one or more databases and/or information identifying the one or more databases; dividing the source data into areas having a unique area identifier; taking area-specific samples from the areas and computing corresponding reference values on a basis of the samples; and checking whether the reference values obtained from computations applied to source data have already been stored in the one or more databases or transmitted, and storing and/or transmitting the reference values, or the reference values in a compressed state, for uniquely identifying elements into the encoded data or storing and/or transmitting the encoded and/or original source data into the encoded data and optionally storing as a new element into the one or more databases in an event that the reference values have not previously been stored into the one or more databases.
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