Appeal No. 1999-2051
Application No. 08/716,615
scope from claim 1, requires a function associated with the "quantization step size
variation determiner" that the rejection fails to show in the reference. In particular, claim 4
sets forth the limitation that the quantization step size variation is modified to be "(i) larger
if said quantization step size variation is positive and a large amount of motion is
determined between a previous frame and a current frame and (ii) smaller if said
quantization step size variation is negative and a small amount of motion is determined
between the previous frame and the current frame." We do not find any disclosure of these
operations in the reference, and the examiner has not pointed out where the description
might lie. We therefore cannot sustain the section 102 rejection of claim 4, nor of claims 5
through 7 depending therefrom.
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