Appeal No. 1998-1339
Application 08/024,305
The Rejection on Appeal
Claims 1, 2, 4, 5, and 8-17 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Gharavi.
The Invention
The claimed invention is directed to a signal compressing
system. The only independent claims are claims 1 and 10,
which are reproduced below:
1. A signal compressing system, comprising:
coding means for simultaneously scanning a first
signal according to a plurality of different
scanning patterns to provide respective coded
versions thereof;
selection means for selecting one of said
scanning patterns which produces efficient sub-block
coding according to a predetermined criterion and
for outputting a scanning pattern signal identifying
the selected scanning pattern and the selected coded
version of said first signal; and
a variable length coder to variable length code
the received selected coded version of said first
signal which is produced by scanning according to
the selected scanning pattern.
10. A signal compressing system for coupling a
first signal representing a video signal to a first
coder as a selected coded signal, said system
comprising:
a second coder for simultaneously scanning said
first signal according to a plurality of different
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