Picture elements. The individual points on a screen. In mobile communications the number of pixels to be displayed is often critical since complex and detailed pictures require many pixels. EMS. Simple monochrome pictures need only one bit per pixel. Multiple levels of pixel brightness, called greyscale, add more data per pixel. Colour adds further. For complex pictures some form of compression is almost always used.
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