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HD Photo Submitted for Standardization

Microsoft has started the process of standardizing HD Photo. Today, the Joint Photographic Expert Group (JPEG) announced a new work item around Microsoft’s HD Photo submission, which will tentatively be called JPEG XR.  The standardization process will follow JPEG’s conventional standards process, which is defined by JTC-1.  Based on that process, JPEG XR can progress to a Draft International Standard in approximately 1 year. 

It’s Microsoft’s intention to help ensure that, once standardized, JPEG XR will be widely adopted and deployed.  To that end, Microsoft submitted HD Photo to JPEG for standardization with the commitment to make royalty free grants for its patents that are required to implement the standard.