• DocumentCode
    902420
  • Title

    Optimizing a scheme for run length encoding

  • Author

    Bradley, S.D.

  • Volume
    57
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1969
  • Firstpage
    108
  • Lastpage
    109
  • Abstract
    A method is developed of optimizing a code for data compression by run length encoding. The performance of this code (13.20 compression factor) is then compared with the theoretically attainable compression based on the information content of the probability distribution of run lengths.
  • Keywords
    Encoding; Engineering drawings; Entropy; Image coding; Length measurement; Probability distribution; Zinc;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Proceedings of the IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9219
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/PROC.1969.6899
  • Filename
    1448829
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=902420