Appeal No. 2002-1961
Application No. 09/133,430 Page 2
1. An image signal compression coding method comprising the
steps of:
(a) compression-coding one field of an input progressive
image signal composed of frames, using only data from said one
field; and
(b) compression-coding another field of the input
progressive image signal using differential data between said one
field and said another field, wherein said one field and said
another field are of the same frame.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Murashita et al. 5,485,213 Jan. 16, 1996
(Murashita)
Owada et al. 5,825,931 Oct. 20, 1998
(Owada) (effectively filed: July 7, 1993)
Claims 1-7 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Murashita in view of Owada.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by
the examiner and appellants regarding the above-noted rejection,
we make reference to the examiner's answer (Paper No. 18, mailed
January 16, 2002) for the examiner's complete reasoning in
support of the rejection, and to appellants' brief (Paper No. 17,
filed November 6, 2001) and reply brief (Paper No. 19, filed
March 18, 2002) for appellants' arguments thereagainst. Only
those arguments actually made by appellants have been considered
in this decision. Arguments which appellants could have made but
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