Example
Consider a screen containing plain black text on a solid white background. There will be many long runs of white pixels in the blank space
History and applications
Run-length encoding (RLE) schemes were employed in the transmission of analog television signals as far back as 1967. In 1983
See also
• Kolakoski sequence• Look-and-say sequence• Comparison of graphics file
External links
• Run-length encoding implemented in different programming languages (on Rosetta
Run-length encoding (
RLE) is a form of lossless data compression in which runs of data (sequences in which the same data value occurs in many consecutive data elements) are stored as a single data value and count, rather than as the original run.Run Length encoding (
RLE) is a lossless data compression algorithm, supported by many bitmap file formats, like BMP, TIFF and PCX. Run Length encoding follows a straightforward logic, it just picks the next unique character and appends the character and it’s count of subsequent occurrences in the encoded string.
Run length encoding (RLE) is a very simple form of lossless data compression which runs on sequences having same value occurring many consecutive times and it encode the sequence to store only a single value and its count. Consider a screen containing plain black text on a solid white background.