Disclosed are method and apparatus for decoding variable length codewords such as a digital image signal at a high speed using a Huffman code tree, in accordance with the present invention, since a variable length coded codeword is stored in a look-up memory in a node order according to levels of...http://www.google.com/patents/US5696507?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5696507 - Method and apparatus for decoding variable length code