Appeal No. 1997-2707
Application No. 08/411,127
1. In a method of encoding interlaced, full motion digital video image
data having two interlaced fields per frame with luminance and chrominance
components, where the chrominance components are uncorrelated between
adjacent fields, the improvement comprising applying one field of
chrominance information to both luminance fields of a frame, thereby
encoding chrominance components at one quarter the spatial resolution of
the luminance components.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Guede 5,436,663 Jul. 25, 1995
(Filed Dec. 16, 1993)
Auld 5,502,494 Mar. 26, 1996
(Eff. filing date Oct. 25, 1993)
Claim 1 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Guede
in view of Auld.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and the
appellants regarding the above-noted rejections, we make reference to the examiner's
answer (Paper No. 13, mailed Feb. 19, 1997) for the examiner's reasoning in support of
the rejections, and to the appellants’ brief (Paper No. 12, filed Jan. 27, 1997) for the
appellants’ arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have given careful consideration to the
appellants’ specification and claims, to the applied prior art references, and to the
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