Appeal No. 2003-2057 Application No. 09/201,865 BACKGROUND The invention relates to video coding-decoding (CODEC) method and apparatus that, according to appellants, provide greater resilience against channel error in comparison with the prior art. Representative claim 1 is reproduced below. 1. A video coding-decoding (CODEC) method for coding video data to generate a video data packet and for decoding the packet, comprising the steps of: (a) partitioning a header data part (HDP) bit region, a motion vector data part (MVDP) bit region and a discrete cosine transform data part (DDP) bit region from each macro block of the video data in an error resilient mode; (b) variable-length-coding the partitioned bit regions; (c) reversible-variable-length-coding the bit regions selected from the variable-length coded bit regions according to a predetermined priority for recovery; and (d) inserting markers into the variable-length coded or reversible-variable-length-coded bit regions. The examiner relies on the following reference: Nagai et al. (Nagai) 5,852,469 Dec. 22, 1998 (filed Mar. 15, 1996) -2-Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007