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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 29
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte GERARD DE HAAN and DANIELE BAGNI
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Appeal No. 2003-1085
Application No. 09/190,670
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ON BRIEF
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Before OWENS, GROSS, and BARRY, Administrative Patent Judges.
OWENS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This appeal is from the final rejection of claims 1, 3, 4
and 6-10, which are all of the claims pending in the application.
THE INVENTION
The appellants claim methods for motion-compensated
predictively encoding and decoding image signals. Claims 1 and 4
are illustrative:
1. A method of motion-compensated predictively encoding image
signals, said method comprising the steps of:
motion-compensated predictively encoding every third frame
by means of motion vectors, and
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