Method for encoding a sequence of integers, storage device and signal carrying an encoded integer sequence and method for decoding a sequence of integers

摘要

The invention is related to a method for encoding a sequence of integers, to a storage device and to a signal carrying such encoded sequence and to a method for decoding such encoded sequence.;Said method comprises the steps of identifying a contiguous sub-sequence in the sequence of integers wherein said sub-sequence comprises interrelated integers having a same prefix when being variable length encoded and an independent last integer, and forming a code for the contiguous sub-sequence by help of code for an indication of the number of interrelated integers in said contiguous subsequence, a code of a prefix indication and the suffixes of variable length codes of the integers in the contiguous sub-sequence.;Thus, if there are n integers of which each is encoded with the same prefix then, instead of n individual prefixes for the integers, a single prefix for the contiguous subsequence is sufficient.