Appeal No. 2001-1929
Application 09/167,994
at column 3. The remaining portions of Boyce’s specification
detail the particular methodologies to achieve this data
reduction.
On the other hand, appellant’s disclosed and claimed
invention relates to a decoder which in essence aims to expand
upon the data presented to it for decoding rather than to reduce
it, thus effectively increasing the frame rate.
We also find ourselves in agreement with appellant’s basic
position set forth at the bottom of page 3 of the brief as it
relates to each independent claims 1, 13 and 19 on appeal that
Boyce does not disclose the generation of an interpolated image
that is not encoded in a signal representing a moving image,
which feature is specifically recited in each of these
independent claims and argued in the principal brief on appeal
at pages 5 and 6 as well.
The operation of the MCP (Motion Compensated Prediction)
circuit 130 in Figures 1, 2A and 2B is discussed in detail
beginning at the bottom of column 11 through the end of column 14
as relied upon by the examiner in the answer. In any of these
figures frame memory 118 stores the received, down-sampled
decompressed frames before their respective submission to the MCP
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