JPEG XR

JPEG XR (formerly Windows Media Photo and HD Photo) is a still-image compression standard and file format for continuous tone photographic images, based on technology originally developed and patented by Microsoft as a part of the Windows Media family. It supports both lossy and lossless compression, and is the preferred image format for Ecma-388 Open XML Paper Specification documents.

Support for the format is available in Windows Imaging Component, .NET Framework (3.0 or newer), Windows Vista/Windows 7, Internet Explorer 9, and a number of other products.

History

Microsoft first announced Windows Media Photo at WinHEC 2006, and then renamed it to HD Photo in November of that year. In July 2007, the Joint Photographic Experts Group and Microsoft announced HD Photo to be under consideration to become a JPEG standard known as JPEG XR. On 16 March 2009, JPEG XR was given final approval as ITU-T Recommendation T.832 and starting in April 2009, it became available from the ITU-T in "pre-published" form. On 19 June 2009, it passed an ISO/IEC Final Draft International Standard (FDIS) ballot, resulting in final approval as International Standard ISO/IEC 29199-2. The ITU-T updated its publication with a......
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