No more JPEGs - ISO to withdraw image standard

The Register USA ^ | July 23, 2002 | Andrew Orlowski

[TC Rider]

I figure the guy is owed billions by the porn web sites.

Go get em. heh heh

[Pagey]

I don't care what anyone says. It's Bill Gates' fault!

Well you're halfway there.I thought it was supposed to be:
"I don't care what anyone says. It's Bill Clintons' fault"! LOL

[Grig]

Is there a good bulk jpg->png conversion tool around?

[Grig]

Is there a good bulk jpg->png conversion tool around?

[John Jorsett]

I thought patents could be renewed one time after the original term expired. Did that change?

[Thisiswhoweare]

The best bulk conversion tool I know of for any image conversion and manipulation is called Image Alchemy:
http://www.handmadesw.com/Products/Image_Alchemy.htm

I worked for a major publisher and they used this tool for large image collection and manipulation. Manipulated thousands of images daily, multiple libraries. It does a great job JPG>PNG(did it many times). Really fast, and does image correction and thumbnail generation as well...great tool.

There are some free tools as well, and don't forget that Adobe Photoshop, ULEAD PhotoImpact and the like have batch file setting for conversion as well. Let me know if you need some help.

[Voltage]

http://www.irfanview.com/

But you have to do them one at a time. I don't know of any bulk converter.

[altair]

JPEG has never been in the public domain. I will repost what is written in the libjpeg software:

This software is copyright (C) 1991-1998, Thomas G. Lane. All Rights Reserved except as specified below.
...
It appears that the arithmetic coding option of the JPEG spec is covered by patents owned by IBM, AT&T, and Mitsubishi. Hence arithmetic coding cannot legally be used without obtaining one or more licenses. For this reason, support for arithmetic coding has been removed from the free JPEG software. (Since arithmetic coding provides only a marginal gain over the unpatented Huffman mode, it is unlikely that very many implementations will support it.) So far as we are aware, there are no patent restrictions on the remaining code.

[altair]

I, for one, would like to know if the patent applies to the standard, and exactly how.

Me too. My reading of the patent doesn't show any conflict with how we are currently using JPEGs. It's a patent for a specific compression algorithm that isn't used by most JPEG-aware software.

[Stuck in Arkansas]

Here. Let them patent this imaging technology.

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