Image.msg

# This message contains an uncompressed image
# (0, 0) is at top-left corner of image

std_msgs/Header header # Header timestamp should be acquisition time of image
                             # Header frame_id should be optical frame of camera
                             # origin of frame should be optical center of cameara
                             # +x should point to the right in the image
                             # +y should point down in the image
                             # +z should point into to plane of the image
                             # If the frame_id here and the frame_id of the CameraInfo
                             # message associated with the image conflict
                             # the behavior is undefined

uint32 height                # image height, that is, number of rows
uint32 width                 # image width, that is, number of columns

# The legal values for encoding are in file include/sensor_msgs/image_encodings.hpp
# If you want to standardize a new string format, join
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string encoding       # Encoding of pixels -- channel meaning, ordering, size
                      # taken from the list of strings in include/sensor_msgs/image_encodings.hpp

uint8 is_bigendian    # is this data bigendian?
uint32 step           # Full row length in bytes
uint8[] data          # actual matrix data, size is (step * rows)