Appeal No. 1999-2817
Application 08/819,587
Representative claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A computer-implemented method for processing video data,
the video data including a current frame and an adjacent frame,
the current frame including a current macroblock, the adjacent
frame including an adjacent macroblock, the method comprising:
obtaining an uncompressed current block and an adjacent
block, the uncompressed current block being a part of the current
macroblock, the adjacent block being a part of the adjacent
macroblock and being in a same spatial location relative to the
uncompressed current block;
calculating a distance between the uncompressed current
block and the adjacent block;
determining if the distance between the uncompressed current
block and the adjacent block is acceptable;
estimating a motion between the uncompressed current block
and the adjacent block if the distance between the uncompressed
current block and the adjacent block is not acceptable; and
adaptively compressing the uncompressed current block when
the distance between the current block and the adjacent block is
not acceptable.
The following references are relied on by the examiner:
Lee et al. (Lee) 5,337,085 Aug. 9, 1994
Uramoto et al. (Uramoto) 5,400,087 Mar. 21, 1995
Claims 8, 12, 20 and 24 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(b) as being anticipated by Lee. Claims 1-3, 6, 13-15 and
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