Most other image compression systems, such as the widely used Jpeg format, are applied after an image has been snapped.

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Voyager 2's two computers were also extensively reprogrammed to take advantage of new image-compression software that had been developed since the craft had been launched.

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The focus of the hardware is to significantly speed up data processing for large, data crunching operations like compression, image recognition, and search functions.

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Compression, a mathematical technique to reduce the number of bits required to store information, is essential because image files are very large.

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