Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Venus processing engine for digital cameras is an image processing engine developed by Panasonic, and almost all of their Lumix cameras use a version of it. Image processors operate in four steps: receive data from the CCD sensor, create the Y-color difference signal (image processing), perform JPEG compression, and save the image data. Panasonic claims that its VENUS II processing engine performs all of these simultaneously.With the Venus engine, Panasonic claims "super fast" shutter speeds and less energy consumption.