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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 15
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 AFONSO FERREIRA FLORENCIO
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Appeal No. 2002-1453
Application No. 09/160,790
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ON BRIEF
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Before FLEMING, BLANKENSHIP, and SAADAT, Administrative Patent
Judges.
FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 1-32. The Examiner has withdrawn the rejection of claims
5-15, 17-19 and 22-32. See page 2 of the Examiner's answer.
Thus, claims 1-4, 16, 20 and 21 are properly before us for
review.
Invention
The invention relates to a method and apparatus for resizing
an image frame including field-mode encoding in an information
stream decoder, such as a MPEG-like video decoder. See page 1 of
Appellant's specification. Figure 2A depicts a frame-encoded 8x8
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