The Rice code was originally developed by Robert F. Rice (he called it the Rice machine) [29, 30] and later extended by Pen-Shu Yeh and Warner Miller [31]. The Rice code can be viewed as an adaptive Golomb code. In the Rice code, a sequence of nonnegative integers (which might have been obtained from the preprocessing of other data) is divided into blocks of J integers apiece. Each block is then coded using one of several options, most of which are a form of Golomb codes. Each block is encoded with each of these options, and the option resulting in the least number of coded bits is selected. The particular option used is indicated by an identifier attached to the code for each block
