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               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                         not binding precedent of the Board                           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. 22                   
                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
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                           BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                         
                                   AND INTERFERENCES                                  
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                                  Ex parte MAMORU UEDA                                
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                                   Appeal No. 2001-2005                               
                              Application 08/893,024                                  
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                              ON BRIEF                                                
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          Before THOMAS, KRASS, and BLANKENSHIP, Administrative Patent Judges.        
          THOMAS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                        
                                                                                     
                                   DECISION ON APPEAL                                 
               Appellant has appealed to the Board from the examiner's                
          final rejection of claims 10-15 and 17-22.  Representative claim            
          10 is reproduced below:                                                     
               10.  Apparatus for processing a digital video signal,                  
          comprising:                                                                 
               a processor for generating block units of a predetermined              
          size from said digital video signal and adding block number                 
          information and color field information indicating a phase-shift            
          of a subcarrier of said digital video signal to said block units,           
          said block number information indicating the sequential order of            
          said block units; and                                                       


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