摘要 |
A delay tolerant decoder for decoding a plurality of interleaved words comprises a shifter for receiving the data stream and outputting properly aligned coded data, a run length decoder (not shown) coupled to the shifter to receive the properly aligned coded data as codewords for determining the codeword type, a probability estimation machine (not shown) coupled to the run length decoder to determine the code for the run length decoder, such that the run length decoder generates a run length and an indication of whether the LPS (least probable symbol) occurred in response to each codeword, and the shifter comprises a variable length shifting mechanism 1606 to shift codewords from the data stream and a plurality of registers 1607-1610 coupled to receive codewords from the stream in response to the shifting mechanism, such that aligned coded data is output as a series of codewords. Application is to decompression of video data. |