- Extension
- .jp2
- .lrf
- Format
- Binary
- Text
- Category
- Raster Image
- Ebook
- Developer
- Joint Photographic Experts Group
- Sony
- Description
- A JP2 file is a compressed bitmap image created using JPEG 2000 Core Coding. It incorporates a wavelet compression algorithm instead of Digital Cosine Transform (DCT) compression, which is used by standard JPEG images. JP2 files can be stored using lossy and lossless compression.
- Is a format developed by Sony for its proprietary Sony Reader devices. Files in this format may contain text and images. The format is XML-based.
- MIME Type
- image/jp2
- application/x-sony-bbeb
