Wireless Application Protocol Bitmap Format (shortened to Wireless Bitmap and with file extension .wbmp) is a

raster file:Rgb-raster-image.svg, upright=1, The Smiley, smiley face in the top left corner is a raster image. When enlarged, individual pixels appear as squares. Enlarging further, each pixel can be analyzed, with their colors constructed through comb ...

image file format An image file format is a file format for a digital image. There are many formats that can be used, such as JPEG, PNG, and GIF. Most formats up until 2022 were for storing 2D images, not 3D ones. The data stored in an image file format may be co ...

optimized for early

mobile computing Mobile computing is human–computer interaction in which a computer is expected to be transported during normal usage and allow for transmission of data, which can include voice and video transmissions. Mobile computing involves mobile commun ...

devices. WBMP images are

monochrome A monochrome or monochromatic image, object or palette is composed of one color (or values of one color). Images using only shades of grey are called grayscale (typically digital) or black-and-white (typically analog). In physics, mon ...

black and white

binary image A binary image is a digital image that consists of pixels that can have one of exactly two colors, usually black and white. Each pixel is stored as a single bit — i.e. either a 0 or 1. A binary image can be stored in memory as a bitmap: a p ...

s in which a black pixel is denoted by 0 and a white pixel is denoted by 1. The simple pixel encoding and the small size of the

file header In information technology, header is supplemental data placed at the beginning of a block of data being stored or transmitted. In data transmission, the data following the header is sometimes called the '' payload'' or '' body''. It is vital that ...

mean that the file size is kept to a minimum, enabling fast transmission on slow networks.

File format

References

External links

WAP WAE Specification

Open Mobile Alliance
{{Compression formats Open Mobile Alliance standards Graphics file formats