Appeal No. 2003-1692
Application No. 09/835,347
Yamaguchi...does not contain any information about the
relative positions of the blocks with respect to the
whole picture. Therefore, it does not disclose the
feature that at least one object picture block is
determined such that a relative position of an edge of
an object picture block in relation to the picture
corresponds to a relative position of an edge of an
object picture block in relation to a chronologically
preceding picture.
The examiner’s response is to cite Figures 20-23 and column
21, line 20 to column 22, line 18, of Yamaguchi, identifying an
image signal 10 divided into blocks and a switch 210 for
determining whether the block of the input predicted error signal
30 is an internal block, an external block or an edge block for
further processing. The examiner concludes that this blocking of
image data by Yamaguchi clearly reads on the “determining at
least one object picture block, the at least one object picture
block being at least one picture block with at least one object
pixel” limitation, as claimed. Moreover, the examiner opines
that
since the image data (i.e., frames) are being
decomposed into blocks of data for simpler processing
and compression, it is inherent that the blocks of data
within Yamaguchi...must be processed in some orderly
fashion and later combined so as to recompose coherent
image frames for displaying purposes (answer-page 6).
Additionally, the examiner states that
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