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              Appeal No. 2000-0193                                                                                      
              Application No. 08/627,010                                                                                

              claims 1 and 12, and thus could not have suggested the claim limitations as purported by                  
              the rejection.  If an object is positioned differently in a subsequent frame -- that is, the              
              object is in motion -- Tsukagoshi's suggested motion adaptive quantization would lead to                  
              the determination of a different quantization for the object with respect to the remainder of             
              the image, rather than using the modified compression ratio set in the first frame, based                 
              upon the importance of an area in that first frame.  Appellants' claims require that the same             
              "modified compression ratio" be applied to the object, based upon the importance of an                    
              area in the first frame, even if the object is positioned differently in the second                       
              (subsequent) frame.                                                                                       
                     We therefore cannot sustain the rejection of claim 1 or 12 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as                
              being unpatentable over Ligtenberg and Tsukagoshi.  Nor can we sustain the rejection of                   
              claims 2, 3, 5, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 21, and 22, depending therefrom.  The additional                      
              rejections, relying on the further teachings of Graf, Mack, and Scorse also cannot be                     
              sustained.  The references of Graf, Mack, and Scorse do not remedy the deficiencies we                    
              have identified in the rejection applied against base claim 1 or 12.                                      











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