Appeal No. 2003-1419
Application No. 09/001,199
within a predetermined region. The predetermined region corresponds to either
the safe picture region or the safe-action region, see page 3 of appellant’s
specification.
Claim 1 is representative of the invention:
1. A method for decoding variable length encoded digital video
data including pictures, to a size less than the full size of the
pictures, each picture including a plurality of macroblocks, the
method comprising the steps of:
parsing the digital video data to identify macroblocks included in
the digital data video data;
discarding from the digital video data those macroblocks not
associated with a picture region substantially corresponding to one of a
safe-title picture region and safe-action picture region; and
storing the digital video data in a decoder input buffer, said digital
video data stored in said decoder buffer including fewer macroblocks per
picture than identified during said step of parsing.
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