1.1 Glossary

This document uses the following terms:

blit: Also known as block image transfer. An operation in which a rectangular block of pixels in a source image is copied onto a destination image.

discrete wavelet transform (DWT): A mathematical procedure that can be used to derive a discrete representation of a signal.

entropy coding: A lossless data compression scheme used to generate compression codes for input symbols based on their statistical properties.

inverse discrete wavelet transform (IDWT): A mathematical procedure that can be used to reconstruct a signal without loss of information.

little-endian: Multiple-byte values that are byte-ordered with the least significant byte stored in the memory location with the lowest address.

quantization: A technique used to reduce a range of values to a single representative value.

tile-based transform: A transform technique in which an input image is segmented into a grid of disjoint tiles and the transform is then applied separately to each individual tile.

YCbCr color space: A color space where each color is represented as a triplet (Y,Cb,Cr), where Y stands for the Luma (brightness) component and Cb,Cr stand for the two Chroma (color) components.

MAY, SHOULD, MUST, SHOULD NOT, MUST NOT: These terms (in all caps) are used as defined in [RFC2119]. All statements of optional behavior use either MAY, SHOULD, or SHOULD NOT.