Appeal No. 95-4414
Application 08/143,007
U.S.C. § 101 and of claims 1, 5 and 14 under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
Claims 2-4 were indicated as containing allowable subject matter.
After the initial brief was filed, this case was remanded to the
examiner for consideration of the Section 101 issue in view of
guidelines which had been promulgated by the Commissioner. Upon
remand, the examiner withdrew the rejection of claims 5-13 under
35 U.S.C. § 101 and indicated that claims 6-13 now contained
allowable subject matter [supplemental answer]. Therefore, only
the rejection of claims 1, 5 and 14 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 remains
on appeal before us.
The claimed invention pertains to an apparatus and method
for predicting the subjective image quality of a reference image
which has undergone a specified level of compression and
decompression. More specifically, intensity variation loss
information is determined for image data which has not been
processed and for image data which has been compressed and
decompressed. A comparison of this information is used to
generate a quality rating which predicts the subjective quality
of the processed image.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. An apparatus for predicting subjective image quality
of a reference image given a pre-specified level of compression,
comprising:
2
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