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today was not written for publication and is not
binding precedent of the Board.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. 12
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
Ex parte ETIENNE FERT and DANIEL KAISER
Appeal No. 2002-2041
Application No. 09/764,658
ON BRIEF
Before HAIRSTON, KRASS and GROSS, Administrative Patent Judges.
KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 1-5, 8 and 9.
The invention is directed to a variable bitrate video coding
method, best illustrated by reference to representative
independent claim 1, reproduced as follows:
1. A variable bitrate video coding method comprising the
steps of a first analysis step, for coding a bitstream
corresponding to a picture sequence with a constant quantization
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