International Imaging Industry Association
Encyclopedia
Photographic and Imaging Manufacturers Association
The Photographic and Imaging Manufacturers Association, or PIMA, was founded in 1946 under the name National Association of Photographic Manufacturers . In 1997 the name was changed to PIMA....
and the Digital Imaging Group in 2001. It is a common forum for the industrial imaging industry.
It supervises standards for photography and digital imaging, such as JPEG 2000
JPEG 2000
JPEG 2000 is an image compression standard and coding system. It was created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group committee in 2000 with the intention of superseding their original discrete cosine transform-based JPEG standard with a newly designed, wavelet-based method...
and PTP
Picture Transfer Protocol
Picture Transfer Protocol is a widely supported protocol developed by the International Imaging Industry Association to allow the transfer of images from digital cameras to computers and other peripheral devices without the need of additional device drivers...
as well as the Internet Imaging Protocol
Internet Imaging Protocol
The Internet Imaging Protocol, or IIP, is an Internet protocol designed by the International Imaging Industry Association. IIP is built on top of HTTP to communicate images and their metadata and takes advantage of the FlashPix image architecture....
.