Appeal No. 1996-0452
Application 07/790,618
This is a decision on the appeal from the examiner's
final rejection of claims 22 through 26 and 28, which
constitute all the claims remaining in the application.
Representative claim 22 is reproduced below:
22. Decoding apparatus for decoding received encoded
data comprising:
an input for receiving said encoded data;
a first comparator connected to said input for receiving
said encoded data therefrom and comparing said received data
with a predetermined value, said predetermined value being
defined in relation to an aberrant or probably aberrant datum
value;
an adaptive differential pulse code modulation decoder
connected to said input for receiving said encoded data
therefrom and providing a pulse code modulation signal as an
output;
second and third comparators having inputs connected to
the output of said adaptive differential pulse code modulation
decoder;
said second comparator comparing the pulse code
modulation signal provided from the output of said adaptive
differential pulse code modulation decoder to the low value of
a predetermined pulse code modulation value range;
said third comparator comparing the pulse code modulation
signal provided from the output of said adaptive differential
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