The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not
written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 22
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte JONATHAN J. STONE
and
CLIVE H. GILLARD
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Appeal No. 2000-1498
Application No. 08/721,623
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ON BRIEF
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Before HAIRSTON, KRASS, and BARRY, Administrative Patent Judges.
HAIRSTON, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims
1 through 6, 9, 13, 14 and 17. Claims 10 through 12, 15 and
16 have been allowed.
The disclosed invention relates to a video data compression
method and apparatus that detects image activity values
indicative of image activity for regions of an input image to be
compressed, filters the detected image activity values to reduce
the variation in image activity values between groups of adjacent
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