Ex parte OKAZAKI et al. - Page 1




                                    THIS OPINION WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR PUBLICATION                                                                        

                          The opinion in support of the decision being entered today (1) was                                                            
                          not written for publication in a law journal and (2) is not binding                                                           
                          precedent of the Board.                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                  Paper No. 20                          
                                        UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                                       
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                                              BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                                        
                                                             AND INTERFERENCES                                                                          
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                      Ex parte TORU OKAZAKI, YOICHI YAGASAKI and YASUHIRO MURAMATSU                                                                     
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                                                            Appeal No. 96-2304                                                                          
                                                     Application No. 08/136,2521                                                                        
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                                                                     ON BRIEF                                                                           
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                 Before THOMAS, KRASS, and GROSS, Administrative Patent Judges.                                                                         
                 KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                                                    
                                                            DECISION ON APPEAL                                                                          

                          This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of                                                                      
                 claims 17 through 31, all of the claims pending in the                                                                                 
                 application.                                                                                                                           
                          The invention is directed to a coding and decoding method                                                                     
                 and apparatus for variable length coding and decoding of a                                                                             
                 macroblock of quantized input data.  In the coding technique,                                                                          

                          1Application for patent filed October 15, 1993.                                                                               





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