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            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            written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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                           Ex parte VIATCHESLAV PRONKINE                              
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                                Appeal No. 2004-0943                                  
                             Application No. 09/460,930                               
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          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 neighboring                 





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