AS/NZS 4473.

1:1997
ISO/IEC 10918-1:1994

Australian/New Zealand Standard

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Information technology—Digital
compression and coding of
continuous-tone still images

Part 1: Requirements and

guidelines
 AS/NZS 4473.1:1997

This Joint Australian/New Zealand Standard was prepared by Joint Technical

Committee IT/1, Information Systems—Interconnection. It was approved on behalf of
the Council of Standards Australia on 24 February 1997 and on behalf of the Council
of Standards New Zealand on 21 February 1997. It was published on 5 June 1997.

The following interests are represented on Committee IT/1:

Australian Bankers Association

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Australian Bureau of Statistics

Australian Computer Society
Australian Computer Users Association
Australian Information Industry Association
Australian Vice-Chancellors Committee
Department of Defence, Australia
Department of Industry, Science and Tourism, Australia
Government Computing Service, New Zealand
Information Exchange Steering Committee, Australia
Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, CSIRO, Australia
Telstra Corporation, Australia
Telecom, New Zealand

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This Standard was issued in draft form for comment as DR 96342.

 AS/NZS 4473.1:1997

Australian/New Zealand Standard

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Information technology—Digital
compression and coding of
continuous-tone still images
Part 1: Requirements and
guidelines

First publi shed as AS/NZS 4473.1:1997.

PUBLISHED JOINTLY BY:

STANDARDS AUSTRALIA
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Homebush NSW 2140 Australia

STANDARDS NEW ZEALAND

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PREFACE

This Standard was prepared by the Joint Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand Committee IT/1,
Information Systems—Interconnection. It is identical with and has been reproduced from
ISO/IEC 10918-1:1994, Information technology—Digital compression and coding of continuous-tone
still images: Requirements and guidelines.
The objective of this Standard is to provide users requiring to compress digital images with a
specification to convert and unconvert source image data to compressed image data. The source image
may be bi-level or continuous-tone still digital data.
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International Standard’ wherever they appear.

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(c) References The references to international Standards should be replaced by references, where
appropriate, to the following Australian or Joint Australian/New Zealand Standards:
Reference to International Standard Australian or Joint
or other publication Australian/New Zealand Standard
CCITT AS/NZS
T.80 Common components for image —
compression and communication—
Basic principles

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CONTENTS

Page

1 Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2 Normative references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
3 Definitions, abbreviations and symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
4 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
5 Interchange format requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
6 Encoder requirements .... .. ... .. ..... ..... .......... 23
7 Decoder requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
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Annexes
A Mathematical definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
B Compressed data formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
C Huffman table specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
D Arithmetic coding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
E Encoder and decoder control procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
F Sequential DCT-based mode operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
G Progressive DCT-based mode of operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
H Lossless mode of operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
J Hierarchical mode of operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
K Examples and guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
L Patents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
M Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
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