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              Appeal No. 2003-2057                                                                                       
              Application No. 09/201,865                                                                                 

                                                    BACKGROUND                                                           
                     The invention relates to video coding-decoding (CODEC) method and apparatus                         
              that, according to appellants, provide greater resilience against channel error in                         
              comparison with the prior art.  Representative claim 1 is reproduced below.                                
                            1.     A video coding-decoding (CODEC) method for coding video data to                       
                     generate a video data packet and for decoding the packet, comprising the steps                      
                     of:                                                                                                 
                            (a) partitioning a header data part (HDP) bit region, a motion vector data                   
                     part (MVDP) bit region and a discrete cosine transform data part (DDP) bit region                   
                     from each macro block of the video data in an error resilient mode;                                 
                            (b) variable-length-coding the partitioned bit regions;                                      
                            (c) reversible-variable-length-coding the bit regions selected from the                      
                     variable-length coded bit regions according to a predetermined priority for                         
                     recovery; and                                                                                       
                            (d) inserting markers into the variable-length coded or                                      
                     reversible-variable-length-coded bit regions.                                                       


                     The examiner relies on the following reference:                                                     
              Nagai et al. (Nagai)                      5,852,469                    Dec. 22, 1998                       
                                                                              (filed Mar. 15, 1996)                      



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