Appeal No. 96-0553
Application 08/020,993
Although correctly pointed out by appellant in the reply brief,
this information has everything to do with the prediction error
coding portion 130 and not the quantization portion 115. Even so
it does indicate that processing within block 118 occurs in a
block-wise manner with respect to the first quantization step-
size computing data signal 119 with respect to each block so
obtained from first quantization step-size computing portion 122.
Thus, it is apparent to us that the determination of a broadly
defined claimed correlation between one of the plurality of
blocks of one of said frames of video data, which is the incoming
frame of video data, and a corresponding block of preceded framed
information of video data is met by the teachings of this
reference as initially introduced in Figure 3. The preceding
data is the data from the code memory 123 in Figure 3 as
processed by the first quantization step-size computing portion
122 to yield a signal 119 feeding block 118. Overall, it is
clear to us that the processing occurs on a corresponding block-
by-block basis from the preceding frame that is to be transmitted
and the current incoming frame that is being processed to be
inputted to the picture memory portion 104 as well as into the
code memory 123. The second quantization step-size signal 120 is
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