METHOD FOR DECOMPRESSING GRAPHICS INTERCHANGE FORMAT (GIF) ENCODED DATA, COMPUTER PROCESSOR FOR DECOMPRESSING GRAPHICS INTERCHANGE FORMAT (GIF) ENCODED DATA, APPARATUS FOR RENDERING GRAPHICS INTERCHANGE FORMAT (GIF) ENCODED DATA, AND METHOD FOR DECOMPRESSING ENCODED DATA

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and apparatus for decompressing a GIF using a fixed-size codeword table. SOLUTION: A fixed-size codeword table is generated for decompressing GIF encoded data. The fixed-size codeword table is defined to store a codeword string and a codeword length for each of a number of codewords. The codeword string is defined by a codeword previously represented in the codeword table and a character. The codeword length represents a total number of characters in the codeword string. A current codeword in the GIF encoded data is translated according to the codeword table to generate a series of characters represented by the current codeword. The generated series of characters is stored in a computer memory space. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT