Appeal No. 96-0553
Application 08/020,993
coding in Tanaka occurs in a step-wise block-by-block basis
continuously, the corresponding remaining data of a given frame
of memory to be transmitted that has not yet been transmitted
also must correspond to the corresponding block of data of a
frame that is currently being processed. Even if the data value
within code memory portion 74 represents a total value of the
remaining data to be transmitted, as is apparent from appellant’s
argument, such a broadly claimed correlation as set forth in the
initially reproduced clause of claim 7 is still met by that
understanding.
The variance data of the respective embodiments in Figures
3 through 6 of Tanaka relate only to incoming or currently
processed video signals on a block-by-block basis. As to appel-
lant’s reply brief, the language apparently chosen by the
examiner in the responsive arguments portion in the answer
utilizes the terminology relating to “the first quantization
step of the previously coded block”, which we interpret to relate
to the first quantization step-size calculating portion data
signal. It is clear to us that the examiner considers the
“previously coded block” as the information in the code memory
123 in Figure 3, data to be transmitted.
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