Appeal No. 2003-2031
Application 09/225,193
wherein said adaptively encoding comprises employing both said
picture statistics and said coding statistics in adaptively
encoding said multiple streams of video frames; and
wherein said adaptively encoding comprises adjusting at
least one encode bit rate employed by said encoding to encode
said multiple streams of video frames with change in said
relative complexity, and wherein said adjusting at least one
encoded bit rate for at least one stream of said multiple streams
of video frames only occurs upon beginning of a new group of
frames (GOP) within said at least one stream, wherein for said at
least one stream of video frames said encode bit rate is constant
within each GOP and is variable between GOPs.
References
The references relied on by the Examiner are as follows:
Lee et al (Lee) 5,565,920 Oct. 15, 1996
Linzer et al. Linzer 6,038,256 Mar. 14, 2000
(filing date Dec. 31, 1996)
Rejections at Issue
Claims 1, 4 through 21, 24 through 33 and 35 through 37
stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Linzer in view of Lee.
Throughout our opinion, we will make reference to the
briefs1 and the answer for the respective details thereof.
1 Appellants filed an appeal brief on October 21, 2002.
Appellants filed a reply brief on February 24, 2003. The
Examiner mailed an office communication on March 25, 2003,
stating that the reply brief has been entered into the records.
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