Huffman coding

A technology of Huffman coding and code words, which is applied in the field of decoding Huffman coding code words, and can solve the problems of decoding dependence, decoder blocking memory bus, etc.

Inactive Publication Date: 2005-05-04
NOKIA CORP
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If the table is kept in common memory, the decoder may block the memory bus, since decoding is a very memory dependent application

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[0046] The present invention provides a fast and memory efficient Huffman code stream decoding method. Decoding is based on the detection of bit strings, ie "0000..." and "1111..." strings in the beginning of the codeword. After finding the first n-bit consecutive 1 or 0, search for consecutive 1 or 0 for the remaining bits in the codeword (from n+1 position forward) again until it can be determined that there are only a few bits left in the codeword At this point, they can be used to look up the corresponding symbol from the storage table. This process can be thought of as traveling a "straight line trip" of maximum length in the Huffman tree, and stopping each time a turning point leading to a new "subtree" is detected. Advantageously, the codewords are processed a minimum of 2 bits at a time (leading 0 or 1 and subsequent bits indicating "turning points").

[0047] For example, in figure 1 In , the decoding process for the letter "P→11000" generally proceeds as follows: ...

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Decoding Huffman codes is accomplished by identifying consecutive strings of high order ones or zeroes (216) and following consecutive strings of high order ones or zeroes, retrieving a table entry (222) for each string based on its run count and bit value, until the retrieved entry contains the decoding output symbol, or until the remaining bits of the code word number within a predetermined threshold. The remaining bits are used as an offset into a lookup table, but the dimensions of the table have been reduced through elimination of the leading ones and zeroes. The consecutive strings are preferably processed by a hardware accelerator to identify the repeated bit, count the bits in the string and return this information to the host processor. The efficiencies of decoding canonical codes are realized; yet, non-canonical codes can be decoded.

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technical field [0001] This invention relates to data compression and, in particular, to the decoding of Huffman encoded codewords. Background technique [0002] Huffman codes are widely used in the fields of data compression and communication. Some applications include JPEG image compression and MPEG video and audio compression. Huffman codes are codes with variable word length, which means that the individual symbols used to make up the message are each represented by different bit sequences of different lengths9 codes). This property of codewords helps reduce redundancy in the message data, ie it enables data compression. For example, the symbols A, B, C and D can be represented by the following code words: [0003] the symbol code word A 0 B 10 C 110 D 111 [0004] All codewords are uniquely decodable; for example, the bit sequence "01101110100" decodes to 'ACDABA'. This set of codewords is call...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): H03M7/42
CPCH03M7/42H03M7/40
Inventor 扬内·坎加斯
Owner NOKIA CORP
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