Ex parte GREENFIELD et al. - Page 5

                  Appeal No. 1997-2707                                                                                                                    
                  Application No. 08/411,127                                                                                                              


                  limitation that “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” is not taught or suggested by the applied prior art, we will not                                              
                  sustain the 35 U.S.C. § 103  rejection of sole claim 1.                                                                                 


                                                                  CONCLUSION                                                                              

                           To summarize, the decision of the examiner to reject claim 1 under 35 U.S.C.                                                   
                  § 103 is reversed.                                                                                                                      
                                                                    REVERSED                                                                              




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