The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board. Paper No. 13 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE _____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES _____________ Ex parte VIATCHESLAV PRONKINE _____________ Appeal No. 2004-0943 Application No. 09/460,930 ______________ ON BRIEF _______________ Before KRASS, OWENS, and SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judges. OWENS, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This appeal is from the final rejection of claims 1-9, which are all of the claims in the application. THE INVENTION The appellant claims a method and apparatus for filtering decoded data by deriving filter coefficients based on run-length codes of each of a first encoded picture block and a neighboring encoded picture block, and using those filter coefficients for filtering decoded picture data of the first and neighboringPage: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007