Digital Huffman encoding appts. - uses compression filter to generate digital differences between sample and estimate

摘要

The appts. permits implementation of a novel truncated Huffman type code using different length code words. Input signals to be encoded have different probabilities of occurance, and the most frequently occuring signals are assigned the shortest code words. Infrequently occuring input signals are labelled using one of the code words. The set of different length code words employed in the invention include a single binary 1 bit at the least significant bit position of each of the code words. Decoding simply includes means for counting the number of binary 0 bits between the 1 bits of the code word stream. The circuit is claimed for use on ECG signals.