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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 19
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte SANJEEV N. TRIKA and JOHN I. GARNEY
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Appeal No. 2000-2138
Application No. 08/935,314
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ON BRIEF
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Before HAIRSTON, KRASS, and GROSS, Administrative Patent Judges.
HAIRSTON, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1 through 15.
The disclosed invention relates to a method and apparatus for generating a stereoscopic
sequence of frames. Each frame in the sequence has a left image and a right image, and one of the
left image and the right image is an approximation of the other. If a pixel is not filled in the
approximation image, then the method and apparatus assigns the data values of a corresponding
pixel in an image from a preceding frame to the pixel that is not filled in the approximation image.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it reads as follows:
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