Appeal No. 2003-1967
Application No. 08/970,889
storage methods. Specifically, structure and memory contents of
a two-dimensional mosaic representation of a scene. A video
program 710 includes a plurality of scenes denoted as S1 through
Sn. The scene comprises a plurality of video frames denoted as
F1 through Fm, where F1 is the most recent frame. The video
content of frames F1 and Fm are shown as respective pictures 730
and 740. Note that both pictures include a boat 732, 742
floating in a body of water 738, 748 beneath at least a portion
of a cloud cover 736, 746. Picture 730 also contains a dock 739,
while picture 740 contains the sun 744 but not the dock 739.
Frames F2 through Fm-1 are the intervening frames of scene 720.
Frame sequence 750 represents a two-dimensional mosaic of the
scene. The two-dimensional mosaic comprises a background image
related to all the frames in a particular scene, and a plurality
of foreground images related to respective foreground portions of
each frame of the scene. Thus, background frame 760 is shown as
a panoramic picture comprising all the background information in
the scene including a dock 769, a body of water 768, a cloud 766
and the sun 764. Frames F1 and Fm show only the respective
foreground portions comprising the boat 732, 742. See page 20 of
Appellants' specification.
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