Ex Parte CHIANG et al - Page 1




               The opinion in support of the decision being entered                   
               today was not written for publication in a law journal                 
               and is not binding precedent of the Board.                             
                                                               Paper No. 14           


                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
                                                                                     
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
                                                                                     
                         Ex parte TIHAO CHIANG, HUNG-JU LEE                           
                         and YA-QIN ZHANG                                             
                                                                                     
                                Appeal No. 2000-1540                                  
                             Application No. 09/099,617                               
                                                                                     
                                      ON BRIEF                                        
                                                                                     

          Before KRASS, BARRETT, and DIXON, Administrative Patent Judges.             
          KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         


                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of               
          claims 1, 4-7, 9-12, 14-18 and 20-22.  Claims 8, 19 and 23 are              
          now considered by the examiner [answer-page 2] to be directed to            
          allowable subject matter and are not before us on appeal.                   
               The invention is directed to a method and apparatus for                
          optimizing the coding of motion video by adaptively adjusting a             

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