Appeal No. 2000-2080
Application 09/287,226
In regard to claim 2, the preamble clearly states that the
invention is, "A motion-compensated video bitstream syntax,
comprising:" (emphasis added). The body of this claim provides
for three consecutive groups of consecutive bits representing
respectively, vectors, a resynchronization word, and texture
data.
We agree with the Examiner3 that the claimed bitstream is an
abstraction and not a "physical thing" as argued by Appellants4.
Appellants assert that between creation and decoding of the
bitstream it is either in transmission as an electromagnetic wave
or in storage in machine-readable form. However, a careful
inspection of claim 2 reveals absolutely no recording medium for
the bitstream, or its being in transmission. In fact, we find
that this claim sets forth merely the disembodied bitstream
syntax, without reference to computer operation or its actual use
for motion compensation.
3 Answer, page 2.
4 Brief, page 3.
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