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publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 21
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte XING LI, MICHAEL E. MEYERS and FRANCIS K. TSE
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Appeal No. 2002-1550
Application No. 09/158,884
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ON BRIEF
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Before KRASS, RUGGIERO and DIXON, Administrative Patent Judges.
KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-9, all of the
pending claims.
The invention is directed to a system of image segmentation. An image is
classified, on a per pixel basis, into one of several possible classifications. Features of
a pixel matrix, or a window, which may be extracted for classification purposes, are the
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