Appeal No. 2003-1085
Application No. 09/190,670
supplying said every third frame without said motion vectors
or motion parameters;
wherein in said motion-compensated predictively encoding
every third frame, said motion vectors between a preceding pair
of frames are used.
4. A method of motion-compensated predictively decoding image
signals, said method comprising the steps of:
receiving always at least one motion-compensated
predictively encoded frame from a transmission or recording
medium without receiving motion vectors or motion parameters
corresponding to said frame from said medium;
motion-compensated predictively decoding said at least one
frame;
wherein in said motion-compensated predictively decoding
said at least one frame, motion vectors between a preceding pair
of frames are used.
THE REFERENCES
Yamashita et al. (Yamashita) 5,696,557 Dec. 9, 1997
Suzuki et al. (Suzuki) 6,097,842 Aug. 1, 2000
(filed Sep. 5, 1997)
THE REJECTIONS
The claims stand rejected as follows: claims 1 and 3 under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as obvious over Suzuki in view of Yamashita, and
claims 4 and 6-10 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as anticipated by
Suzuki.
OPINION
We affirm the aforementioned rejections.
The appellants state that the claims stand or fall together
(brief, page 3). We therefore limit our discussion to one claim
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