Tencent’s new image patent challenging Google’s WebP

May 10, 2017 By CIW Team

Tencent submitted a patent application to the State Intellectual Property Office on an image coding technology called Tiny Portable Graphics, or TPG. TPG image file size is smaller than JPG/JPEG, PNG, GIF, and Google’s WebP based on a released experiment data.

Compress JPG to TPG using Libjpeg (reduced 44%)

Compress JPG to TPG using Guetzli (reduced 41%)

Compress PNG to TPG (reduced 50%)

Compress GIF to TPG (reduced 94%)

Compress WebP to TPG (reduced 29%)

Image quality comparison between TPG and JPEG images with the same file size

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