Ex Parte SONG et al - Page 1



            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            written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 14              
                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
                                     __________                                       
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
                                     __________                                       
                               Ex parte XUDONG SONG,                                  
                                   TIHAO CHIANG,                                      
                                   YA-QIN ZHANG,                                      
                                        and                                           
                                RAVI KRISHNAMURTHY                                    
                                     __________                                       
                                Appeal No. 2001-0927                                  
                             Application No. 09/106,707                               
                                     __________                                       
                                      ON BRIEF                                        
                                     __________                                       
          Before THOMAS, HAIRSTON, and JERRY SMITH, Administrative Patent             
          Judges.                                                                     
          HAIRSTON, Administrative Patent Judge.                                      
                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims                   
          1 through 20.                                                               
               The disclosed invention relates to a method and an apparatus           
          for performing motion estimation for a sequence of images.                  
               Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it               
          reads as follows:                                                           





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