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publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 26
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. 2001-2013
Application No. 08/869,592
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ON BRIEF
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Before KRASS, JERRY SMITH, and GROSS, Administrative Patent
Judges.
GROSS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final
rejection of claims 3 through 5 and 10 through 13, which are all
of the claims pending in this application. Claims 1, 2, and 6
through 9 have been canceled.
Appellant's invention relates to a signal processing
apparatus which divides an input signal into a plurality of pixel
blocks, shuffles the blocks, adds header information including
timing and shuffling data to the shuffled blocks, and performs a
DCT process on the shuffled blocks. Claim 10 is illustrative of
the claimed invention, and it reads as follows:
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