Appeal No. 2004-1031
Application No. 09/448,952
Reference is made to the final rejection (paper number 5), the
briefs (paper numbers 9 and 11) and the answer (paper number 10)
for the respective positions of the appellants and the examiner.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the entire record before us, and
we will sustain the 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) rejection of claims 1
through 5 and 7 through 11, and reverse the 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
rejection of claims 12 through 14, 16 through 28 and 30 through 41.
Dieterich discloses a method of compressing image data from an
uncompressed image file (e.g., a movie or a television program
wherein each is nothing more than a file of similarly structured
data) (column 3, lines 22 through 27) that includes image data and
descriptive data (i.e., side information) (column 1, line 65
through column 2, line 10) that characterizes or relates to the
image data. The input video 105 received by the coding apparatus
100 (Figure 1) includes both the uncompressed image data and the
side information/descriptive data. The coding apparatus 100
reviews the descriptive data associated with the uncompressed image
file for predetermined image characteristics, and selects a data
compression routine from a plurality of candidate routines based at
least partially on the descriptive data, and wherein the
predetermined image characteristics include an imaging modality
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