Appeal No. 2000-1501
Application No. 08/745,587
regard to the particular information sequences being sent or the changes inherent in
those sequences. However, this appears to be a much narrower definition than the
language of the claims would appear to require. There is no claim requirement that
“generic” objects must be unrelated to the information sequences. Appellant’s
argument is unconvincing in this regard.
Accordingly, we will sustain the rejection of claims 2-9 and 11 under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103.
Finally, we turn to the rejection of claims 9, 10, 12 and 13 under 35 U.S.C. § 103
over Endoh and Crayson, in view of Dachiku.
The examiner relies on Dachiku to provide the teaching of motion estimation of a
first and second video frame to a multiplexer and for variable length coding, pointing to
block 5 of Figure 1. The examiner concludes that it would have been obvious to use
the motion estimation of Dachiku since this provides for efficient motion compensation
around the contours and for estimating fine motions of human objects as provided by
Dachiku at column 4, lines 50-57.
Appellant’s arguments, at page 7 of the principal brief, relate to Dachiku failing to
provide for the generic object libraries deficiencies of the primary references. However,
for the reasons, supra, we do not regard the primary references as having such
deficiencies. Accordingly, this argument is unconvincing.
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