Appeal No. 2001-0343
Application 08/911,526
appeal. Thus, the examiner's comments at the bottom of page 5 of
the answer regarding this teaching at column 12 of Canfield are
misplaced.
The examiner has asserted at the top of page 3 of the final
rejection that Canfield does not teach the feature of dynamically
selecting in independent claims 1 and 6 on appeal, for example,
but asserts that the reference does so at the top of page 6 of
the answer. We do not agree with this characterization in view
of the findings that we just made with respect to the alternative
teaching/suggestion at column 12 for the quantizer 562 of the
fixed length compressor in Figure 5.
The examiner's reliance upon Liu is also misplaced.
Although it is clear from the abstract in the summary of the
invention at column 4 of Liu that this reference teaches hybrid
decoding operations, there is no explicitly taught hybrid
quantization table of the type set forth in independent claims 1
and 6 on appeal but merely a hybrid methodology. This involves
the technique of parsing certain short length variable length
code data using a binary tree or binary search procedure and then
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