Appeal No. 1999-1793
Application 08/161,798
an approximate mathematical model using said counted number of
available frequency-units; and
a second bit allocation step for determining further bit
allocation for each of said available frequency-units based on
psychoacoustic criteria.
The Examiner relies on the following prior art:
Veldhuis et al. (Veldhuis) 5,105,463 April 14, 1992
Nishiguchi et al. (Nishiguchi) 5,151,941 September 29, 1992
Claims 42-7, 9-12, 14-17, and 19-23 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Veldhuis and
Nishiguchi.
We refer to the rejection (Paper No. 5), the final rejection
(Paper No. 8) (pages referred to as "FR__") and the examiner's answer
(Paper No. 15) (pages referred to as "EA__") for a statement of the
Examiner's position, and to the appeal brief (Paper No. 14) (pages
referred to as "Br__") and the reply brief (Paper No. 16) (pages
referred to as "RBr__") for Appellants' arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
The claims are grouped to stand or fall together with
independent claim 5 (Br5).
2 The Examiner's statement of the rejection inadvertently omits
claim 4.
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