The coefficients
were originally introduced at describe
in terms of the basis for
:
From the previous equation we find that
where
, which gives a way to calculate the coefficients
when we know
.
In the Haar case
since
in the interval
and zero otherwise. Then choosing
in
, we find that
for the Haar system. From the wavelet scaling equation
we can see that the Haar mother wavelet and scaling function
look like in
:
It is now easy to see, in the Haar case, how integer shifts of
the mother wavelet describe the differences between signals in
and
(
):