Appeal No. 2000-0128
Application 08/590,722
Representative claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A method of postfiltering low bitrate visual telephony images, comprising the
steps of:
inputting a video image to an encoder;
encoding said video image and determining a postfilter parameter in said encoder,
wherein said postfilter parameter is determined based on the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)
between the encoded video image and the input video image;
transmitting said encoded video image and said postfilter parameters to a
decoder;
decoding said transmitted video image in said decoder and postfiltering said
decoded video image using said postfilter parameter; and
displaying the postfiltered video image.
The following reference is relied on by the examiner:
Normile et al. (Normile) 5,596,659 Jan. 21, 1997
(filing date Sept. 1, 1992)
Claims 1, 3 through 10 and 12 through 18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(e) as being anticipated by Normile.
Rather than repeat the positions of the appellants and the examiner, reference is
made to the brief and the answer for the respective details thereof.
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