Run length encoding of facsimile signals

Details Run length encoding of facsimile signals Run length encoding of facsimile signals

1978-07-20

1980-01-22

Britton, Howard W.

Facsimile and static presentation processing

Facsimile

Recording apparatus

H04N 100

Patent

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041853024

ABSTRACT:
A facsimile signal encoding technique reduces the amount of information needed to represent a picture by (a) generating an error signal (on line 1120) which indicates whether an intensity value prediction corresponds to the true intensity value, (b) generating a reference signal (on line 1005) indicating whether the confidence in each prediction is high or low, (c) reordering the error signal values (logic 1010) into high and low confidence groups in accordance with the reference signal, and (d) assigning code words (encoder 1016) to represent the run lengths of the reordered data. Advantageously, different code dictionaries are selected (line 1019) for code assignment in each of the groups, each dictionary being tailored to the type of runs expected in each group. Also, code words for certain runs may be dropped, and the lengths of other runs may be combined (by logic 1015) before run length coding, again increasing encoder efficiency. A receiver (FIGS. 16-18) for decoding the run lengths is described.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4060834 (1977-11-01), Mounts
patent: 4086620 (1978-04-01), Bowen
patent: 4101934 (1978-07-01), Fukuoka
Huffman, "A Method for the Construction of Minimum Redundancy Codes", Proceedings, of I.R.E., vol. 40, Sep. 1952, pp. 1098-1101.

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