Specifications

Overview
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This manual describes the structure, operation and functions of the
Intel

Image Processing Library. This library supports many functions
whose performance can be significantly enhanced on processors with the
MMX
 technology, as well as on Intel

Pentium

III processors.
The manual describes the library’s data and execution architecture and
provides detailed descriptions of the library functions.
This chapter introduces the Image Processing Library and explains the
organization of this manual.
About This Software
The Image Processing Library focuses on taking advantage of the
parallelism of the new SIMD (single-instruction, multiple-data)
instructions of the latest generations of Intel processors. These instructions
greatly improve the performance of computation-intensive image
processing functions. Most functions in the Image Processing Library are
specially optimized for the latest generations of processors. However, all
functions will successfully execute on older processors as well.
The library does not support the reading and writing of a wide variety of
image file formats or the display of images.
Hardware and Software Requirements
The Image Processing Library runs on personal computers that are based
on Intel

architecture processors and running Microsoft* Windows*,
Windows 95, 98, or Windows NT* operating system. The library integrates
into the customer’s application or library written in C or C++.