(Billerica, MA June 1999) – MuTech Corporation is a leading manufacturer of high accuracy, high quality, leading edge video capture products for machine/industrial vision, robot vision, picture identification, traffic monitoring, image analysis and more. MuTech is pleased to announce a Software Developers Kit for JPEG compression.

MuTech’s JPEG image compression Software Development Kit (SDK) is based on an international standard format: the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) or ISO DIS 10918-1. The SDK provides a highly optimized DCT algorithm and high speed software that compresses gray scale or color images to ratios as high as 100:1. OEMs and System integrators can quickly and easily incorporate MuTech JPEG SDK functions into their applications(for Windows or DOS). Some of these functions work independently, and some of them work in conjunction with MuTech’s frame grabber products and corresponding SDKs.

The JPEG SDK includes libraries, DLLs, sample source codes and build/make files. The key features of the MuTech JPEG SDK are:

• High level functions with sample codes to speed up the application development
• Selectable input/output file formats
• Quality factors 1<<Qf<<255
• Lossy(DCT based) or Lossless compression modes
• The code stream generated can be stored either in file or in memory buffer

MuTech JPEG SDK provides a choice of lossy or lossless compression modes.

• The Lossy(also known as Baseline) compression allows a selectable amount of loss of information during compression by adjusting the Quality Factor (QF) parameter.

• The lossless mode compresses the image without introducing any distortion. The decompressed image will be exactly the same as the original.

MuTech JPEG SDK is provided separately for different platforms, such as DOS, WIN16 and WIN32. The SDK for other platforms may also be available. Call MuTech Corporation for information.