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                   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                                publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 18                        
                                                                                                                        
                              UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                  
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                                   BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                    
                                               AND INTERFERENCES                                                         
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                                           Ex parte ADRIAN PHILIP WISE                                                   
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                                                Appeal No. 2003-1544                                                     
                                              Application No. 09/126,171                                                 
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                                                      ON BRIEF                                                           
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              Before HAIRSTON, KRASS,  and FLEMING,  Administrative Patent Judges.                                       
              KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                        

                                               DECISION ON APPEAL                                                        


                     This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-19.                               
                     The invention is directed to the decoding of video data.  In particular, the                        
              invention is said to improve upon the prior art depicted in Figure 1 by providing an on-                   
              chip block-to-raster buffer connected to the video decoder and eliminating memory                          
              region 12 for storing a decoded B-frame.                                                                   



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