Appeal No. 2001-2575
Application No. 09/074,545
Accordingly, we do not sustain the 35 U.S.C. § 103 rejection of
claims 1-3, 6, 13-15, 18-22, 25, 26, 30, 33 and 35.
With respect to the rejection of claims 5, 17 and 24, the
Examiner further relies on Meriwether (answer, page 7) and on
Murray in rejecting claims 32, 36-39, 50, 52-54, 56, 57, 59-61
and 63 (answer, page 8), in addition to the references discussed
above, for teaching the details of run length encoding. With
respect to claims 27, 28, 47 and 48, the Examiner additionally
relies on Pearlman for teaching a computer readable medium
(answer, pages 10 & 11). However, none of these references
overcomes the deficiencies of the combination of the Hirano,
Normile and Kuroshima discussed above as they also fail to teach
the claimed reducing the number of chrominance data values and
applying the run length encoding to the reduced values.
Therefore, the 35 U.S.C. § 103 rejections of claims 5, 17 and
24,, 27, 28, 32, 36-39, 47, 48, 50, 52-54, 56, 57, 59-61 and 63
over the various combinations of these references cannot be
sustained.
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