Appeal No. 2004-0907
Application No. 09/192,674
BACKGROUND
The invention relates to a method of motion-compensated predictive image
encoding. Claim 9 is reproduced below.
9. A method for generating a motion-compensated predictively encoded
image signal, comprising:
estimating motion vectors (MVc, MVl, MVr, MVa, MVb) relating to first
objects (16*16); and generating prediction errors relating to every occurrence of
second objects (8* 8), said second objects (8*8) being smaller than said first
objects (16*16), wherein said prediction errors depend on motion vectors for said
second objects (8*8) only.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Ng 5,146,325 Sep. 8, 1992
Gerard de Haan et al. (de Haan), “True-Motion Estimation with 3-D Recursive Search
Block Matching,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology,
Vol. 3, No. 5, pp. 368-79, Oct. 1993.
Claims 1-9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Ng
and de Haan.
We refer to the Final Rejection (Paper No. 21) and the Examiner’s Answer
(Paper No. 24) for a statement of the examiner’s position and to the Brief (Paper No.
23) for appellants’ position with respect to the claims which stand rejected.
OPINION
Appellants submit that the claims stand or fall together, and argue that two
features of instant claim 1 are not disclosed or suggested by the references. However,
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