The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for
publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 18
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte MARK WALKER
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Appeal No. 1998-2557
Application No. 08/335,550
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ON BRIEF
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Before JERRY SMITH, BARRETT and HECKER, Administrative Patent
Judges.
JERRY SMITH, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134
from the examiner’s rejection of claims 21-40, which
constitute all the claims remaining in the application.
The disclosed invention pertains to a computer-
implemented process for encoding video signals so as to
improve the bandwidth of video signal transmission. The
invention is directed to a technique for determining whether a
current region of a video frame should be encoded as an inter
encoded region, an intra encoded region or a skipped region.
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