TJpgDec Module Application Note

  1. How to Use
  2. Limits
  3. Memory Usage
  4. Options
  5. About TJpgDec License

How to Use

First of all, you should build and run the sample program shown below. This is a typical usage of TJpgDec module and it helps to narrow down the problem on debugging.

The decompression session is divided in two stages. The first stage is to analyze the JPEG image and the second stage is to decompress it.

  1. Initialize input stream. (e.g. open a file)
  2. Allocate JPEG decompression object and work area.
  3. Call jd_prepare() to analyze and prepare to decompress the JPEG image.
  4. Initialize output device with the image info in the decompression object.
  5. Call jd_decomp() to decompress the JPEG image.

System Organization

Example

/*------------------------------------------------*/
/* TJpgDec Quick Evaluation Program for PCs       */
/*------------------------------------------------*/

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include "tjpgd.h"

/* Bytes per pixel of image output */
#define N_BPP (3 - JD_FORMAT)


/* Session identifier for input/output functions (name, members and usage are as user defined) */
typedef struct {
    FILE *fp;               /* Input stream */
    uint8_t *fbuf;          /* Output frame buffer */
    unsigned int wfbuf;     /* Width of the frame buffer [pix] */
} IODEV;


/*------------------------------*/
/* User defined input funciton  */
/*------------------------------*/

size_t in_func (    /* Returns number of bytes read (zero on error) */
    JDEC* jd,       /* Decompression object */
    uint8_t* buff,  /* Pointer to the read buffer (null to remove data) */
    size_t nbyte    /* Number of bytes to read/remove */
)
{
    IODEV *dev = (IODEV*)jd->device;   /* Session identifier (5th argument of jd_prepare function) */


    if (buff) { /* Raad data from imput stream */
        return fread(buff, 1, nbyte, dev->fp);
    } else {    /* Remove data from input stream */
        return fseek(dev->fp, nbyte, SEEK_CUR) ? 0 : nbyte;
    }
}


/*------------------------------*/
/* User defined output funciton */
/*------------------------------*/

int out_func (      /* Returns 1 to continue, 0 to abort */
    JDEC* jd,       /* Decompression object */
    void* bitmap,   /* Bitmap data to be output */
    JRECT* rect     /* Rectangular region of output image */
)
{
    IODEV *dev = (IODEV*)jd->device;   /* Session identifier (5th argument of jd_prepare function) */
    uint8_t *src, *dst;
    uint16_t y, bws;
    unsigned int bwd;


    /* Put progress indicator */
    if (rect->left == 0) {
        printf("\r%lu%%", (rect->top << jd->scale) * 100UL / jd->height);
    }

    /* Copy the output image rectanglar to the frame buffer */
    src = (uint8_t*)bitmap;
    dst = dev->fbuf + N_BPP * (rect->top * dev->wfbuf + rect->left);  /* Left-top of destination rectangular */
    bws = N_BPP * (rect->right - rect->left + 1);     /* Width of output rectangular [byte] */
    bwd = N_BPP * dev->wfbuf;                         /* Width of frame buffer [byte] */
    for (y = rect->top; y <= rect->bottom; y++) {
        memcpy(dst, src, bws);   /* Copy a line */
        src += bws; dst += bwd;  /* Next line */
    }

    return 1;    /* Continue to decompress */
}


/*------------------------------*/
/* Program Main                 */
/*------------------------------*/

int main (int argc, char* argv[])
{
    JRESULT res;      /* Result code of TJpgDec API */
    JDEC jdec;        /* Decompression object */
    void *work;       /* Pointer to the work area */
    size_t sz_work = 3500; /* Size of work area */
    IODEV devid;      /* Session identifier */


    /* Initialize input stream */
    if (argc < 2) return -1;
    devid.fp = fopen(argv[1], "rb");
    if (!devid.fp) return -1;

    /* Prepare to decompress */
    work = (void*)malloc(sz_work);
    res = jd_prepare(&jdec, in_func, work, sz_work, &devid);
    if (res == JDR_OK) {
        /* It is ready to dcompress and image info is available here */
        printf("Image size is %u x %u.\n%u bytes of work ares is used.\n", jdec.width, jdec.height, sz_work - jdec.sz_pool);

        /* Initialize output device */
        devid.fbuf = (uint8_t*)malloc(N_BPP * jdec.width * jdec.height); /* Create frame buffer for output image */
        devid.wfbuf = jdec.width;

        res = jd_decomp(&jdec, out_func, 0);   /* Start to decompress with 1/1 scaling */
        if (res == JDR_OK) {
            /* Decompression succeeded. You have the decompressed image in the frame buffer here. */
            printf("\rDecompression succeeded.\n");

        } else {
            printf("jd_decomp() failed (rc=%d)\n", res);
        }

        free(devid.fbuf);    /* Discard frame buffer */

    } else {
        printf("jd_prepare() failed (rc=%d)\n", res);
    }

    free(work);             /* Discard work area */

    fclose(devid.fp);       /* Close the JPEG file */

    return res;
}

Limits

Memory Usage

These are the memory usage of some platforms at default configuration. Each compilations are optimized in code size.

AVRPIC24CM0IA-32
CompilerGCCC30GCCMSC
text+const6.1k5.1k3.1k3.7k

TJpgDec requires a work area upto 3100 bytes for most JPEG images. It exactly depends on what parameter has been used to create the JPEG image to be decompressed. The 3100 bytes is the maximum memory requirement in default configuration and it varies depends on JD_SZBUF and JD_FASTDECODE.

Options

TJpgDec has some configuration options on output format, performance and memory usage. These options are in tjpgdcnf.h.

JD_SZBUF
This option speficies how many bytes read from input stream at a time. TJpgDec alignes each read request to the buffer size, so that 512, 1024, 2048... byte is ideal to read data from the storage device.
JD_FORMAT
This option speficies the output pixel format. 0: RGB888, 1: RGB565 or 2: Grayscale.
JD_USE_SCALE
This option switches output scaling feature. When enabled (1), the output image can be descaled on decompression. The descaling ratio is specified in jd_decomp function.
JD_FASTDECODE
This option switches the decompression algorithm. How this option affects the performance is highly depends on the processor architectre as shown in right image. The Lv.0 is the basic optimization in minimal memory usage suitable for 8/16-bit processors. The Lv.1 depends on 32-bit barrel shifter and is suitable for 32-bit processors. It requires additional 320 bytes of work area. The Lv.2 enables the table conversion for huffman decoding. It requires additional 6 << HUFF_BITS, 6144 by default, bytes of work area.
JD_TBLCLIP
This option switches to use table conversion for saturation alithmetics. It requires 1024 bytes of code size.

About TJpgDec License

This is a copy of the TJpgDec license document that included in the source codes.

/*----------------------------------------------------------------------------/
/ TJpgDec - Tiny JPEG Decompressor R0.xx                       (C)ChaN, 20xx
/-----------------------------------------------------------------------------/
/ The TJpgDec is a generic JPEG decompressor module for tiny embedded systems.
/ This is a free software that opened for education, research and commercial
/  developments under license policy of following terms.
/
/  Copyright (C) 20xx, ChaN, all right reserved.
/
/ * The TJpgDec module is a free software and there is NO WARRANTY.
/ * No restriction on use. You can use, modify and redistribute it for
/   personal, non-profit or commercial products UNDER YOUR RESPONSIBILITY.
/ * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice.
/
/----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

Therefore TJpgDec license is one of the BSD-style license but there is a significant difference. Because TJpgDec is for embedded projects, the conditions for redistributions in binary form, such as embedded code, hex file and binary library, are not specified to increase its usability. The documentation of the distributions need not include about TJpgDec and its license document, and it may also. Of course TJpgDec is compatible with the projects under GNU GPL. When redistribute it with any modification, the license can also be changed to GNU GPL or BSD-style license.

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