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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 13
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte DINEI A. FLORENCIO
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Appeal No. 2002-1309
Application No. 09/286,760
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ON BRIEF
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Before JERRY SMITH, DIXON, and LEVY, Administrative Patent
Judges.
JERRY SMITH, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134
from the examiner’s rejection of claims 1-21, which constitute
all the claims in the application.
The disclosed invention pertains to a method and
apparatus for converting the bitrate of an encoded image sequence
having a plurality of frames without having to execute a full re-
encoding process, that is, without having to first decode the
encoded image sequence and then re-encoding the decoded images at
the new desired bitrate.
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