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               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               written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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  The Examiner has withdrawn the rejection of claims            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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