Appeal No. 2003-1967
Application No. 08/970,889
frame as recited in Appellants' claims 1 and 21. In particular,
Appellants argue that the references fail to teach combining or
mosaicing layers from a plurality of image frames within a scene
to form a combined or mosaiced background layer. See pages 16-22
of the brief.
Upon our review of Adelson, Yeo and Shibata, we fail to find
that the Examiner has made a prima facie case showing that the
above limitations are taught by these references. Adelson
teaches a technique which operates on the principle that a still
or moving image can be broken down into a plurality of layers.
For instance, an image of a baseball player chasing a flyball
might comprise three layers; 1)a stationary background (i.e., the
field, 2)the baseball player, and 3)the baseball. See column 4,
lines 16-26. However, we fail to find that Adelson teaches or
suggests representing each scene background layer as a mosaic
where the background layer mosaic defines a key frame of a
representative scene. Thus, Adelson does not teach combining or
mosaicing layers from a plurality of image frames within a scene
to form a combined or mosaiced background layer.
Furthermore, we fail to find that Yeo teaches this
limitation as well. Yeo is concerned with automating the
browsing process for browsing of video material. See Yeo, column
77
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