File extension apt information

The acronym APT on the file extension APT refers to the Adaptive Prediction Trees. This application is an image coding method for lossy and lossless compression. It is able to code color images and monochrome that have bit depths of 1 to 16 bits in every component. The performance of this application, on all the image types, is frequently close to the best alternative. The APT makes use of the principle component analysis. This is a multicomponent image pyramid, adaptive runlength, Huffman coding, and shape non-linear predictions. Coding with color palettes is also supported where appropriate.
There is no part of the extension APT that is patented. The APT is naturally progressive, and a modification that is straightforward so that the decoder can be able to write directly to a picture buffer that is onscreen and allows image recovery that is simple and progressive. The Binary Tree Predictive Coding or BPTC is superseded by the APT. Version 5 was the final version of the BTPC and was released in March of 2003. The inter-component predictor, the spatial predictor, the lossless coder and the quantizer of the APT are all dissimilar to the ones in BPTC.