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opinion in support of the decision being entered today (1) was not written for publication in a law journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the Board.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 ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte TORU OKAZAKI, YOICHI YAGASAKI and YASUHIRO MURAMATSU ____________ Appeal No. 96-2304 Application No. 08/136,2521 ____________ ON BRIEF ____________ 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.Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007