Appeal No. 2004-0943
Application No. 09/460,930
codes are run-length and col. 4, lines 22+, and 57+)” (answer,
page 5). The portion of Moronaga relied upon by the examiner
which discloses the data coding technique is the following
(col. 3, lines 45-55):
A Huffman coding section 48 codes the normalized data
to produce Huffman codes. Specifically, as shown in
FIG. 7, the normalized data are scanned 14a [in a]
zig-zag direction and a block by block manner and fed
to the Huffman coding section 48. Considering the fact
that zero often appears continuously in normalized
transform coefficients, the Huffman coding section 48
determines the amount in which data whose value is zero
appears continuously, i.e., run-lengths of zeros and
the amplitudes of non-zeros, and transforms them to
Huffman codes.
Moronaga refers to the continuous runs of zeroes in the
normalized transform coefficients as run-lengths of zeroes. The
coding of the data, however, is by Huffman coding, not run-length
coding.
“Anticipation requires that every limitation of the claim in
issue be disclosed, either expressly or under principles of
inherency, in a single prior art reference.” Corning Glass
Works v. Sumitomo Elect. U.S.A., Inc., 868 F.2d 1251, 1255-56,
9 USPQ2d 1962, 1965 (Fed. Cir. 1989). Because the examiner
has not established that Moronaga discloses, either expressly or
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