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today was not written for publication and is not
binding precedent of the Board.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. 20
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
Ex parte JOSE ROBERTO ALVAREZ
Appeal No. 2004-0252
Application No. 09/439,920
ON BRIEF
Before KRASS, JERRY SMITH and BLANKENSHIP, Administrative Patent
Judges.
KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 1-5 and 7-41.
The invention is directed to converting interlace video
signals into a down-conversion de-interlaced form suitable for
use as higher-quality input for progressive input video encoding.
Representative independent claim 24 is reproduced as
follows:
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