The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication in a law journal and is not binding precedent of the Board. Paper No. 14 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES Ex parte TIHAO CHIANG, HUNG-JU LEE and YA-QIN ZHANG Appeal No. 2000-1540 Application No. 09/099,617 ON BRIEF Before KRASS, BARRETT, and DIXON, Administrative Patent Judges. KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 1, 4-7, 9-12, 14-18 and 20-22. Claims 8, 19 and 23 are now considered by the examiner [answer-page 2] to be directed to allowable subject matter and are not before us on appeal. The invention is directed to a method and apparatus for optimizing the coding of motion video by adaptively adjusting a -1–Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007