1 Scope
This CCITT Recommendation | International Standard is applicable to continuous-tone — grayscale or colour — digital still image data. It is applicable to a wide range of applications which require use of compressed images. It is not applicable to bi-level image data.
This Specification
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— specifies processes for converting source image data to compressed image data;
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— specifies processes for converting compressed image data to reconstructed image data;
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— gives guidance on how to implement these processes in practice;
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— specifies coded representations for compressed image data.
NOTE This Specification does not specify a complete coded image representation. Such representations may include certain parameters, such as aspect ratio, componentsample registration, and colour space designation, which are application-dependent.