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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 18
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte CHARLES E. BOICE, JOHN A. MURDOCK, and AGNES Y. NGAI
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Appeal No. 2003-0023
Application No. 09/046,289
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ON BRIEF
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Before THOMAS, HAIRSTON, and RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent
Judges.
RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on the appeal from the final rejection of
claims 26-45, which are all of the claims pending in the present
application. Claims 1-25 have been canceled.
The disclosed invention relates to an apparatus for
expanding the size of the search window used in the motion
estimation function of a full function MPEG encoder. More
particularly, multiple encoders are provided and the number of
encoders is selected by a user dependent upon the desired
expanded size of the search window.
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