Appeal No. 1998-1895 Page 9
Application No. 08/425,990
FIG. 10 illustrates a configuration of two
pyramid ICs, 1002 and 1004, and two frame stores
1006 and 1008 as a reduce-expand pyramid module.
This module may be used for encoding and decoding
images for data reduction, image enhancement, noise
reduction image merging and other image processing
functions where it is desirable to reconstruct an
image from a pyramid after some processing is
performed on pyramid images.
Col. 20, l. 63 - col. 21, l. 2. In summary, the paragraph
teaches that van der Wal's reduce-expand pyramid module is
useful "where it is desirable to reconstruct an image from a
pyramid after some processing is performed on pyramid images."
There is no evidence, however, that Schreiber employs, let
alone processes, such pyramid images such that it would be
desirable to reconstruct an image from a pyramid.
Relying on AAPA as evidence that "wavelets provide for
efficiency and high compression ratios" (Examiner's Answer at
6), on Carnahan to "demonstrate[] the commonality of using a
wavelet transform in image coding" (id.), on Ohsawa to
"provide[] for a series of low-pass filters in an encoding
apparatus" and "for different cut-off frequencies" (id. at 8),
and on Toriu "only ... as an example to show the commonality
of a typical horizontal and vertical gradient operations" (id.
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