Appeal No. 1996-3081
Application No. 08/156,544
through 15, 17 through 20, 22 through 26, 28 through 35 and 37
through 39 remain before us on appeal.
The disclosed invention relates to a method and apparatus
for processing video data to reduce noise levels.
Claims 1 and 7 are illustrative of the claimed invention,
and they read as follows:
1. A method for reconstructing a corrupted binary cyclic
signal with digital logic circuitry, comprising the steps of:
dividing each cycle of the corrupted cyclic signal into
portions;
comparing the logic states of each portion in each cycle
to a corresponding portion in at least two other cycles in the
corrupted cyclic signal, said at least two other cycles having
a predetermined temporal relationship to said cycle in each
comparison;
determining the logic state of the majority of the
compared portions; and
generating a reconstructed cyclic signal corresponding to
the corrupted cyclic signal, wherein the logic state of each
portion comprises the determined logic state in the step of
determining.
7. A method for reconstructing corrupted binary cyclic
signals comprising:
sampling a predetermined number of equally time-spaced
rejection of claims 1 through 40.
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