Returns a specifier for a banded image format that will use a ComponentColorModel and a BandedSampleModel to store each channel in a separate array.

  Returns a specifier for a banded image format that will use a
ComponentColorModel and a
BandedSampleModel to store each channel in a
separate array.
Returns: an ImageTypeSpecifier with the desired characteristics.
Parameters:
- colorSpace - the desired ColorSpace.
- bankIndices - an array of ints indicating the bank in which each band will be stored.
- bandOffsets - an array of ints indicating the starting offset of each band within its bank.
- dataType - the desired data type, as one of the enumerations from the DataBuffer class.
- hasAlpha - true if an alpha channel is desired.
- isAlphaPremultiplied - true if the color channels will be premultipled by the alpha channel.
Throws:
- IllegalArgumentException - if colorSpace is null.
- IllegalArgumentException - if bankIndices is null.
- IllegalArgumentException - if bandOffsets is null.
- IllegalArgumentException - if the lengths of bankIndices and bandOffsets differ.
- IllegalArgumentException - if bandOffsets.length does not equal the number of color space components, plus 1 if hasAlpha is true.
- IllegalArgumentException - if dataType is not one of the legal DataBuffer.TYPE_* constants.

  Creates a BufferedImage with a given width and height according to the specification embodied in this object.

  Creates a BufferedImage with a given width and
height according to the specification embodied in this object.
Returns: a new BufferedImage
Parameters:
- width - the desired width of the returned BufferedImage.
- height - the desired height of the returned BufferedImage.
Throws:
- IllegalArgumentException - if either width or height are negative or zero.
- IllegalArgumentException - if the product of width and height is greater than Integer.MAX_VALUE, or if the number of array elements needed to store the image is greater than Integer.MAX_VALUE.

  Returns an ImageTypeSpecifier that encodes one of the standard BufferedImage types (other than TYPE_CUSTOM).

  Returns an ImageTypeSpecifier that encodes
one of the standard BufferedImage types
(other than TYPE_CUSTOM).
Returns: an ImageTypeSpecifier with the desired characteristics.
Parameters:
- bufferedImageType - an int representing one of the standard BufferedImage types.
Throws:
- IllegalArgumentException - if bufferedImageType is not one of the standard types, or is equal to TYPE_CUSTOM.
See Also: BufferedImage, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB_PRE, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_BGR, BufferedImage.TYPE_3BYTE_BGR, BufferedImage.TYPE_4BYTE_ABGR, BufferedImage.TYPE_4BYTE_ABGR_PRE, BufferedImage.TYPE_USHORT_565_RGB, BufferedImage.TYPE_USHORT_555_RGB, BufferedImage.TYPE_BYTE_GRAY, BufferedImage.TYPE_USHORT_GRAY, BufferedImage.TYPE_BYTE_BINARY, BufferedImage.TYPE_BYTE_INDEXED,

  Returns an ImageTypeSpecifier that encodes the layout of a RenderedImage (which may be a BufferedImage).

  Returns an ImageTypeSpecifier that encodes the
layout of a RenderedImage (which may be a
BufferedImage).
Returns: an ImageTypeSpecifier with the desired characteristics.
Parameters:
- image - a RenderedImage.
Throws:
- IllegalArgumentException - if image is null.

  Returns a specifier for a grayscale image format that will pack pixels of the given bit depth into array elements of the specified data type.

  Returns a specifier for a grayscale image format that will pack
pixels of the given bit depth into array elements of
the specified data type.
Returns: an ImageTypeSpecifier with the desired characteristics.
Parameters:
- bits - the number of bits per gray value (1, 2, 4, 8, or 16).
- dataType - the desired data type, as one of the enumerations from the DataBuffer class.
- isSigned - true if negative values are to be represented.
Throws:
- IllegalArgumentException - if bits is not one of 1, 2, 4, 8, or 16.
- IllegalArgumentException - if dataType is not one of DataBuffer.TYPE_BYTE, DataBuffer.TYPE_SHORT, or DataBuffer.TYPE_USHORT.
- IllegalArgumentException - if bits is larger than the bit size of the given dataType.

  Returns a specifier for a grayscale plus alpha image format that will pack pixels of the given bit depth into array elements of the specified data type.

  Returns a specifier for a grayscale plus alpha image format
that will pack pixels of the given bit depth into array
elements of the specified data type.
Returns: an ImageTypeSpecifier with the desired characteristics.
Parameters:
- bits - the number of bits per gray value (1, 2, 4, 8, or 16).
- dataType - the desired data type, as one of the enumerations from the DataBuffer class.
- isSigned - true if negative values are to be represented.
- isAlphaPremultiplied - true if the luminance channel will be premultipled by the alpha channel.
Throws:
- IllegalArgumentException - if bits is not one of 1, 2, 4, 8, or 16.
- IllegalArgumentException - if dataType is not one of DataBuffer.TYPE_BYTE, DataBuffer.TYPE_SHORT, or DataBuffer.TYPE_USHORT.
- IllegalArgumentException - if bits is larger than the bit size of the given dataType.

  Returns a specifier for an indexed-color image format that will pack index values of the given bit depth into array elements of the specified data type.

  Returns a specifier for an indexed-color image format that will pack
index values of the given bit depth into array elements of
the specified data type.
Returns: an ImageTypeSpecifier with the desired characteristics.
Parameters:
- redLUT - an array of bytes containing the red values for each index.
- greenLUT - an array of bytes containing * the green values for each index.
- blueLUT - an array of bytes containing the blue values for each index.
- alphaLUT - an array of bytes containing the alpha values for each index, or null to create a fully opaque LUT.
- bits - the number of bits in each index.
- dataType - the desired output type, as one of the enumerations from the DataBuffer class.
Throws:
- IllegalArgumentException - if redLUT is null.
- IllegalArgumentException - if greenLUT is null.
- IllegalArgumentException - if blueLUT is null.
- IllegalArgumentException - if bits is not one of 1, 2, 4, 8, or 16.
- IllegalArgumentException - if the non-null LUT parameters do not have lengths of exactly 1 << bits.
- IllegalArgumentException - if dataType is not one of DataBuffer.TYPE_BYTE, DataBuffer.TYPE_SHORT, DataBuffer.TYPE_USHORT, or DataBuffer.TYPE_INT.
- IllegalArgumentException - if bits is larger than the bit size of the given dataType.

  Returns a specifier for an interleaved image format that will use a ComponentColorModel and a PixelInterleavedSampleModel to store each pixel component in a separate byte, short, or int.

  Returns a specifier for an interleaved image format that will
use a ComponentColorModel and a
PixelInterleavedSampleModel to store each pixel
component in a separate byte, short, or int.
Returns: an ImageTypeSpecifier with the desired characteristics.
Parameters:
- colorSpace - the desired ColorSpace.
- bandOffsets - an array of ints indicating the offsets for each band.
- dataType - the desired data type, as one of the enumerations from the DataBuffer class.
- hasAlpha - true if an alpha channel is desired.
- isAlphaPremultiplied - true if the color channels will be premultipled by the alpha channel.
Throws:
- IllegalArgumentException - if colorSpace is null.
- IllegalArgumentException - if bandOffsets is null.
- IllegalArgumentException - if dataType is not one of the legal DataBuffer.TYPE_* constants.
- IllegalArgumentException - if bandOffsets.length does not equal the number of color space components, plus 1 if hasAlpha is true.

  Returns a specifier for a packed image format that will use a DirectColorModel and a packed SampleModel to store each pixel packed into in a single byte, short, or int.

  Returns a specifier for a packed image format that will use a
DirectColorModel and a packed
SampleModel to store each pixel packed into in a
single byte, short, or int.
Returns: an ImageTypeSpecifier with the desired characteristics.
Parameters:
- colorSpace - the desired ColorSpace.
- redMask - a contiguous mask indicated the position of the red channel.
- greenMask - a contiguous mask indicated the position of the green channel.
- blueMask - a contiguous mask indicated the position of the blue channel.
- alphaMask - a contiguous mask indicated the position of the alpha channel.
- transferType - the desired SampleModel transfer type.
- isAlphaPremultiplied - true if the color channels will be premultipled by the alpha channel.
Throws:
- IllegalArgumentException - if colorSpace is null.
- IllegalArgumentException - if colorSpace is not of type TYPE_RGB.
- IllegalArgumentException - if no mask has at least 1 bit set.
- IllegalArgumentException - if transferType if not one of DataBuffer.TYPE_BYTE, DataBuffer.TYPE_USHORT, or DataBuffer.TYPE_INT.

  Returns true if the given Object is an ImageTypeSpecifier and has a SampleModel and ColorModel that are equal to those of this object.

  Returns true if the given Object is
an ImageTypeSpecifier and has a
SampleModel and ColorModel that are
equal to those of this object.
Returns: true if the given object is an equivalent ImageTypeSpecifier.
Parameters:
- o - the Object to be compared for equality.

  Return the number of bits used to represent samples of the given band.

  Return the number of bits used to represent samples of the given band.
Returns: an int specifying a number of bits.
Parameters:
- band - the index of the band to be queried, as an int.
Throws:
- IllegalArgumentException - if band is negative or greater than the largest band index.

  Returns an int containing one of the enumerated constant values describing image formats from BufferedImage.

  Returns an int containing one of the enumerated constant values
describing image formats from BufferedImage.
Returns: an int representing a BufferedImage type.
See Also: BufferedImage, BufferedImage.TYPE_CUSTOM, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB_PRE, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_BGR, BufferedImage.TYPE_3BYTE_BGR, BufferedImage.TYPE_4BYTE_ABGR, BufferedImage.TYPE_4BYTE_ABGR_PRE, BufferedImage.TYPE_USHORT_565_RGB, BufferedImage.TYPE_USHORT_555_RGB, BufferedImage.TYPE_BYTE_GRAY, BufferedImage.TYPE_USHORT_GRAY, BufferedImage.TYPE_BYTE_BINARY, BufferedImage.TYPE_BYTE_INDEXED,

  Returns the ColorModel specified by this object.

  Returns the ColorModel specified by this object.
Returns: a ColorModel.

  Return the number of bands specified by this object.

  Return the number of bands
specified by this object. This is the same value as returned by
SampleModel.getNumBands
Returns: the number of bands in the image.

  Return the number of color components specified by this object.

  Return the number of color components
specified by this object. This is the same value as returned by
ColorModel.getNumComponents
Returns: the number of components in the image.

  Returns a SampleModel based on the settings encapsulated within this object.

  Returns a SampleModel based on the settings
encapsulated within this object. The width and height of the
SampleModel will be set to arbitrary values.
Returns: a SampleModel with arbitrary dimensions.

  Returns a SampleModel based on the settings encapsulated within this object.

  Returns a SampleModel based on the settings
encapsulated within this object. The width and height of the
SampleModel will be set to the supplied values.
Returns: a SampleModel with the given dimensions.
Parameters:
- width - the desired width of the returned SampleModel.
- height - the desired height of the returned SampleModel.
Throws:
- IllegalArgumentException - if either width or height are negative or zero.
- IllegalArgumentException - if the product of width and height is greater than Integer.MAX_VALUE

  Returns the hash code for this ImageTypeSpecifier.

  Returns the hash code for this ImageTypeSpecifier.
Returns: a hash code for this ImageTypeSpecifier