A data compression method by dropping Most Significant Bits and its application to transmission of position data

This paper suggests a data compression method for transmitting data having knowledge of some approximate value of the data to be sent, and shows some application examples of the method to transmission of position data. The key idea of the method is that MSB (Most Significant Bits) do not have important information when we know the approximate value, and we can drop it from the data to be sent. Applying this method to position data, the data sizes are reduced by 25% or more compared to general encoding methods.