ORmat, standard> (JPEG) The ORiginal name of the committee that designed the standard imagecompressionalgORithm. JPEG is designed fOR compressing either full-colourORgrey-scaledigital images of "natural", real-wORld scenes. It does not wORk so well on non-realistic images, such as cartoons OR line drawings. JPEG does not handle compression of black-and-white (1 bit-per-pixel) images ORmoving pictures. Standards fOR compressing those types of images are being wORked on by other committees, named JBIG and MPEG. Start . Filename extension: .jpg, .jpeg. See also PJPEG. (2000-09-11)