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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 38
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte KINYA OSA
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Appeal No. 2002-2064
Application No. 08/902,330
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HEARD: May 6, 2003
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Before BARRETT, FLEMING, and DIXON, Administrative Patent Judges.
FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 1, 3-6, 8-13 and 16, all the claims pending in the instant
application. Claims 2, 7, 14, 15 and 17-24 have been canceled.
Invention
The invention relates to a block deformation removing
filter. See page 1 of Appellant's specification. Figures 1A and
1B are illustrations showing how to remove the block deformation
by way of the prior art's low-pass filter. Figure 1A shows
intensity values of decoded image before filtering, while figure
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