Condensed Huffman coding, a new efficient decoding technique

A new technique is proposed for decoding Huffman codes. In this technique a Condensed Huffman Table (CHT) for decoding purposes replaces a typical Huffman table. It is shown that a CHT is much smaller in size and the decoding becomes significantly faster. In an example with a typical Huffman table containing 108 codewords, it is shown that a CHT with only 14 codewords is sufficient to perform the decoding.