Appeal No. 1998-1895 Page 4 Application No. 08/425,990 decoding said low-frequency information, thereby obtaining a decoded low-frequency image; and performing an inverse wavelet transform on said decoded low-frequency image and said pair of high- frequency images. Besides the appellant‘s admitted prior art (AAPA), the references relied on in rejecting the claims follow: Schreiber 3,035,121 May 15, 1962 Toriu et al. (Toriu) 4,908,872 Mar. 13, 1990 Ohsawa et al. (Ohsawa) 5,124,811 June 23, 1992 van der Wal 5,359,674 Oct. 25, 1994 filed Dec. 11, 1991 Carnahan 5,414,780 May 9, 1995 filed Jan. 27, 1993. Claims 1-5, 15-19, 26, and 79 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as obvious over Schreiber in view of van der Wal further in view of Carnahan or AAPA. Claims 6 and 8 stand rejected under § 103 as obvious over Schreiber in view of van der Wal further in view of Carnahan or AAPA even further in view of Ohsawa. Claims 9, 10, 12-14, 27-33, and 80-86 stand rejected under § 103 as obvious over Schreiber in view of van der WalPage: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007