Appeal No. 2004-0422
Application No. 09/046,315
Claim 5 is representative of the claimed invention and is
reproduced as follows:
5. An apparatus for detection of a cut in compressed motion
picture data, the apparatus comprising:
extracting means for extracting data from said compressed
motion picture data which is received as a data stream
partitioned into a plurality of intra frames each having an equal
number of bits;
data comparing means for comparing said compressed motion
picture data at corresponding locations of adjacent ones of said
frames of the stream; and
cut judging means for judging the presence or absence of a
cut by the result of the comparison by said comparing means.
References
The references relied on by the Examiner are as follows:
Saito 5,204,706 Apr. 20, 1993
Liou et al. (Liou) 5,835,163 Nov. 10, 1998
(Filed Dec. 21, 1995)
Rejections At Issue
Claim 5 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first
paragraph as containing subject matter which was not described in
the specification in such a way as to enable one skilled in the
art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly
connected, to make and/or use the invention.
Claims 5-13 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102 as being
anticipated by Liou.
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