Appeal No. 1999-2012
Application No. 08/801,610
adjacent blocks, defining four block motion vectors, which are
nearest to that portion of pixels of the current block to which
the current pixel belongs.”
The Examiner has not pointed out where, in Gillard, the
step of calculating a motion vector for each pixel using the
motion vectors for the adjacent blocks and the current block is
shown, and furthermore, that these blocks have to be nearest to
a specified current block.
A prior art reference anticipates the subject of a claim
when the reference discloses every feature of the claimed
invention, either explicitly or inherently. See Hazani v.
Int'l Trade Comm'n, 126 F.3d 1473, 1477, 44 USPQ2d 1358, 1361
(Fed.
Cir. 1997) and RCA Corp. v. Applied Digital Data Sys., Inc.,
730 F.2d 1440, 1444, 221 USPQ 385, 388 (Fed. Cir. 1984).
In the instant case, it may be possible to calculate the
motion vector for each pixel using the block motion vectors,
however, that is not shown by Gillard as required of an
anticipation rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 102. Gillard states,
column 7, lines 38-41, that “a choice is made of four from
seven motion vectors, the seven motion vectors being the one
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