Appeal No. 1998-1325
Application No. 08/027,783
Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it
reads as follows:
1. Apparatus for use in a video compression system
having a motion vector generator for detecting linear
motion of video information from one video frame to
another and for generating motion vector data
representative thereof, and an intraframe spatial
redundancy processor for reducing video data
representing the video information within a video
frame, said apparatus comprising: rotation sensing
means for sensing rotation of video information from
a previous frame to a present frame; rotation vector
generating means for generating rotation vector data
representing a magnitude of the rotation sensed by
said rotation sensing means; and means for combining
said rotation vector data with said motion vector
data.
The reference relied on by the examiner is:
Kummerfeldt et al. (Kummerfeldt) 4,816,906 Mar. 28,
1989
Claims 1 through 58 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Kummerfeldt.
Reference is made to the briefs and the answer for the
respective positions of the appellants and the examiner.
OPINION
The obviousness rejection of claims 1 through 58 is
reversed.
Although Kummerfeldt discloses “translation (linear),
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