Appeal No. 94-2081
Application No. 07/809,984
HAIRSTON, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims
1 through 53. After reconsideration of the non-statutory
subject matter rejection, the examiner withdrew the 35 U.S.C.
§ 101 rejection, and indicated that claims 6, 7, 24, 25, 32,
33, 35 and 36 are now objected to as being dependent upon a
rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in
independent form including all of the limitations of the base
claim and any intervening claims (paper number 17, page 2).
Accordingly, claims 1 through 5, 8 through 23, 26 through 31,
34 and 37 through 53 remain before us on appeal.
The disclosed invention relates to a method and apparatus
for processing a digital image that includes subsampling the
digital image to produce a reduced spatial resolution digital
image, and quantizing the reduced spatial resolution digital
image in accordance with plural quantizing thresholds to
thereby reduce the digital data resolution of the digital
image.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it
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