The opinion in support of the decision being entered
today was not written for publication and is not
binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 22
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte JIN LI and SHAW-MIN LEI
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Appeal No. 2001-0867
Application 09/016,571
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ON BRIEF
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Before JERRY SMITH, RUGGIERO and DIXON, Administrative Patent
Judges.
JERRY SMITH, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134
from the examiner’s rejection of claims 1-4 and 6-28, which
constitute all the claims remaining in the application.
The disclosed invention pertains to a method and
apparatus for embedded coding of a digital image with rate-
distortion optimization. More specifically, the invention
determines the encoding order of quantized coefficient symbols
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