Appeal No. 96-2696
Application 08/167,415
For the foregoing reasons, the § 102(e) rejection of
claim 1 based on Sun is reversed, as are the remaining
rejections based on Sun, i.e., the § 102(e) rejection of
independent claims 9 and 24, which recite limitations similar
to those recited in claim 1, the § 102(e) rejection of
dependent claims 2, 4-7, 10, and 12, and the § 103 rejection
of dependent claims 3, 8, and 11.
The rejection based on Acampora
Claim 13, which is rejected as anticipated by Acampora,
is directed to the encoding method used in appellants'
disclosed invention. This claim recites the steps of, inter
alia, encoding data of a macroblock by using a
predetermined data compressing method and
adding an invalid code for preventing underflow of
data in a send buffer for the compressed data of said
macroblock, wherein said invalid code is formed with a
staffing start code consisting of synchronous codes
specified to not allow generation of the same pattern in
the image data and a staffing code indicating information
about an attribute of said macroblock.
Acampora discloses an MPEG-like HDTV encoder (col. 2,
lines 36-40) which employs a reset control means for ensuring
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