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This part of ISO/IEC 13249: a) introduces the Still Image part of ISO/IEC 13249, b) gives the references for this part of the ISO/IEC 13249, c) defines notations and conventions specific to this part of ISO/IEC 13249, d) defines concepts specific to this part of ISO/IEC 13249, e) defines the still image user-defined types and their associated routines. The still image user-defined types defined in this part adhere to the following: - A still image user-defined type is generic to image data handling. It adresses the need to store, manage and retrieve information based on aspects of image data such as height, width and format and based on image features such as average colour, colour histogram, positional colour and texture. - A still image user-defined type does not redefine the database language SQL directly or in combination with another still image data type.