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.
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![](https://www.chinainternetwatch.com/wp-content/uploads/tpg-png.jpg)
![](https://www.chinainternetwatch.com/wp-content/uploads/tpg-gif.jpg)
![](https://www.chinainternetwatch.com/wp-content/uploads/tpg-webp.jpg)
![](https://www.chinainternetwatch.com/wp-content/uploads/tpg-to-jpeg.jpg)
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