Appeal No. 1999-2012
Application No. 08/801,610
present case four motion vectors are selected from seven local
motion vectors. These four motion vectors are then passed to a
second processor, that is, vector selector 41, which selects
one from four.”
We are not persuaded by Examiner’s contention, answer at
pages 9-10, that “though Gillard shows a motion estimation
system that involves applying ... a motion estimation process
wherein a choice of four from seven motion vectors, the seven
motion vectors being one of that particular block and the six
for the six nearest blocks respectively as currently pointed
out by the appellants, it nevertheless meets the limitation of
calculating for each pixel of a current block an individual
pixel motion vector using in each case for a current pixel the
block motion vector for the current block motion vectors for
the three adjacent blocks, defining four block motion vectors
as claimed ....”
In our view, the Examiner has merely recited the claim
language without showing how Gillard achieves the claimed step
of “calculating for each pixel of a current block an individual
pixel motion vector using ... the block motion vector for the
current block and the block motion vectors for the three
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