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PEGASUS IMAGING LEADS JPEG 2000 JPIP INTEROPERABILITY AT RECENT JPEG ISO MEETING |
| TAMPA, FL, MAY 25, 2007 – Pegasus® Imaging Corporation, the leading provider of digital image compression technology, today announces it has completed the initial phase of JPEG 2000 Part 9 JPIP interoperability testing and deems the results of the testing process an unqualified success. The company is dedicated to delivering standards-based image compression technologies optimized for speed, quality, size, and ease of use. An optimized implementation of JPEG 2000 is available in the PICTools™ Software Development Kit (SDK). The JPEG 2000 Part 9 JPIP interoperability tests were performed at the most recent international JPEG Committee meeting held during the week of April 23, 2007 in San Jose, California. Pegasus Imaging was an invited guest of the Committee’s US National Body as an expert in JPIP interoperability. Vice President of Development Chris Lubeck and Imaging Scientists Dr. Stephen Martucci and Dr. Thomas Richter represented the company at the meeting, and they were enthusiastic in their report that everything worked precisely as it should during all tests. “The PICTools implementation of JPEG 2000 JPIP first successfully completed an initial test to request, deliver, and receive complete images across the wire between a server and client from different vendors,” says Richter. “Subsequent tests to extract smaller image regions from full resolution files were also completed without any issues. Both our server and client implementations performed smoothly and were more successful than other participants, including our competitors in the marketplace.” JPEG 2000 Part 9, also known as JPIP, allows powerful and efficient network access to JPEG 2000 imagery in a way that exploits the best features of the JPEG 2000 standard. This technology is most effective when used with large images such as medical x-rays. The PICTools MedX software development kit provides imaging technology designed to enhance medical imaging applications. PICTools MedX contains low-level C libraries providing the fastest compression and decompression engines available. PICTools MedX provides commercially supported software development libraries for lossy JPEG, lossless JPEG, JPEG 2000, and JPEG-LS. It offers both lossy and lossless DICOM-compliant formats, including 8-bit and 16-bit grayscale. This SDK is ideal for both still image and video.PICTools MedX provides total control over image manipulation, compression, decompression, and conversion. PICTools technologies are supported across multiple environments, including 32-bit Windows, 64-bit Windows, 32-bit Linux, 64-bit Linux, 32-bit Solaris, 64-bit Solaris, IBM AIX, and more. A complete product description and trial download can be found at www.pegasusimaging.com/picmedx.htm. Contact sales@jpg.com for more information. |
| About Pegasus Imaging |
| Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Tampa, Florida, Pegasus Imaging Corporation delivers digital imaging software development components, image compression and image editing technologies. The company exceeds speed and quality requirements for document imaging, forms processing, medical imaging, color/photo imaging, video applications and more. Technology is delivered as Microsoft .NET controls, COM controls, DLLs and applications. Multiple platforms are supported, including Windows, Linux, Solaris, IBM AIX and Mac OS X. Visit www.pegasusimaging.com for more information. |
About JPEG The Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) is a working group of ISO/IEC, the International Organisation for Standardization / International Electrotechnical Commission, (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG1) and of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T SG16), responsible for the popular JPEG and, more recently, the JPEG 2000 family of imaging standards. The WG1 group meets three times a year, in Europe, North America and Asia. The latest meeting was held April 23-27, 2007, in San Jose California, hosted by US NCITS with delegates from 12 countries. |
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