Appeal No. 2003-1692
Application No. 09/835,347
since edge blocks are determined within Yamaguchi...it
is submitted that such motion compensation prediction
of a current edge block within Yamaguchi...therefore
corresponds to a relative position of an edge of a
block of a chronologically preceding picture in
relation to the chronologically preceding picture, i.e.
a previous best matched edge block (answer-page 6).
Thus, it is the examiner’s position that in the process of
motion compensation predicting a current edge block in Yamaguchi,
similar edge and content data for the current edge block is being
searched in the previous frame, with relative positions of edges
being taken into consideration within the current and previous
frames, and so the motion compensation prediction of Yamaguchi
provides the same determining the at least one object picture
block such that a relative position of an edge of the object
picture block corresponds to a relative position of an edge of an
object picture block of a chronologically preceding picture in
relation to the chronologically preceding picture, as claimed.
After careful consideration of the arguments advanced by
both appellant and the examiner, we will not sustain the
rejection of claims 1-19 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) because we find
fault with the examiner’s rationale.
While it is true that Yamaguchi is directed, like the
instant invention, to coding and decoding of digitized pictures
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