Microsoft Seeks JPEG Standard Status for HD Photo
 

*Source: BetaNews (http://www.betanews.com/article/Micr...o/1185991666)*
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As predicted back in March, Microsoft moved forward today with plans to submit its HD Photo image format to the Joint Photographic Experts Group, for consideration as a formal standard. If adopted, Microsoft suggests the format be dubbed JPEG XR.

Like a "patent pending," just the move to get HD Photo considered will lend the format an extra degree of legitimacy. Besides utilizing a new and demonstrably more efficient compression scheme whose permissibility for use by Microsoft may not come under fire in court (http://www.betanews.com/article/Micr...nt/1114190870), the scheme depends upon device-specific color profiles as a way of ensuring the integrity of the original image.

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