摘要 |
<p><P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To response to transparency, in a printer or a similar device, or application software handling images, while ensuring recessatility and interchangeability without leading to a cost increase, and to allow intention of a creator to be easily conveyed to a user by specifying detailed modification, a layout, and other output format. <P>SOLUTION: A data structure for image data is organized to include by expanding a JPEG standard, a quantization table selector concerning transparency, a Huffman table selector, and encoded data, in addition to ordinary electors and encoded data concerning color information. The data structure is also organized so that image data itself includes data for specifying the output format (detailed modification, the layout, and the like) of an original image. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO</p> |