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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 05, 1999
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
In a method and a device for transforming a stream of digital numbers, the correlation between successive numbers is utilized in order to obtain a new stream having a very low correlation between the numbers, whereby the sequence of numbers can be coded much more efficiently from a compression point of view. The numbers are for this purpose coded with the difference between a predicted number (s′(i)) and the actual number (s(i)) taking into account that the sequence does not need to be possible to decode in reverse order. The non-reversible codes can also be applied in lossy data compression schemes. Such schemes can change in accordance with the currently available bandwidth in order to obtain a graceful degradation and optimal bandwidth usage when the compressed data stream is transmitted over a channel having a time varying bandwidth. A general method and device for reversible coding are also provided.