Appeal No. 96-2696
Application 08/167,415
This is an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the
examiner's rejection of claims 1-15, 17-19, 21, 23, and 24,
all of the pending claims, over prior art. We reverse. 2
The invention relates to encoding and decoding for use in
transmitting and reproducing compressed motion image data
(Spec. at 1, lines 5-9).
The background of the invention
Appellants' Figures 1(A)-1(C) show a prior art image
encoding apparatus (Spec. at 22, lines 3-5). This system
includes, inter alia, a motion vector detecting circuit 1
responsive to image information stored in "forward original
image part" 2a, "reference original image part" 2b, and
"backward original image part" 2c, an arithmetic operation
part 3 (Spec. at 3, lines 15-16), a DCT (discrete cosine
transformation) circuit 4 (Spec. at 5, lines 6-7), a
quantizing circuit 5, a variable length encoding circuit 6, a
send buffer 7, and a transmitting data control circuit 111.
2Page 5 of the Answer incorrectly includes claim 22
among the rejected claims. Claim 22 was canceled by an
amendment after final received April 11, 1995 (paper No. 9).
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