Ex parte HURST et al. - Page 5




          Appeal No. 1997-0900                                                        
          Application 08/371,039                                                      



               Additionally, we reverse the rejection of claim 12 for                 
          the reasons set forth by appellants at pages 9 and 10 of the                
          brief relating to the language of claim 12 requiring that the               
          residues in multiple modes are formed into compressed output                
          data by the claimed motion compensated compression means.  As               
          well explained by appellants in these pages of the brief,                   
          Grotz does not teach or suggest that residues be formed in                  
          output data in more than one mode.  Similarly, Ishiguro, by                 
          its title alone, only relates to interframe coding of video                 
          signals.                                                                    
               For reasons similar to the last noted language of claim                
          12, the rejection of claims 1 and 3 must also be reversed.  It              
          is noted that claim 3 is identical to the subject matter of                 
          claim 1 with additional recitations as well.  Claim 1 is                    
          slightly more specific than the noted recitation in claim 12                
          since claim 1 recites that both the intraframe and interframe               
          coding residues are included in compressed output data by the               
          compression means.                                                          
          Because claim 2 depends from reversed claim 3, the rejection                
          of claim 2 must also be reversed.                                           

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