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This is your image as mentioned in the topic title. Please read the documentation of openni_launch where the topic depth/image is explained. This is a message as sensor_msgs/Image. Look this page to know how read it.

However if you want to read the distance (depth) I advise you to use camera/depth/points inside a node as PointCloud2 or XYZ point cloud using PCL.

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