Appeal No. 2004-2297 Page 2
Application No. 10/196,817
invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 4,
which is reproduced as follows:
4. A method of locating problem areas in an image signal,
the method comprising the steps:
estimating a motion vector field for said image signal;
detecting edges in the motion vectors field; and
comparing edge locations in successive field periods to
identify both foreground and background.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Brailean et al. 5,717,463 Feb. 10, 1998
(Brailean)
Rosenberg 5,832,115 Nov. 3, 1998
Claims 4 and 11 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Brailean in view of Rosenberg.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by
the examiner and appellants regarding the above-noted rejection,
we make reference to the examiner's answer (Paper No. 13, mailed
December 3, 2003) for the examiner's complete reasoning in
support of the rejection, and to appellants' brief (Paper No. 12,
filed August 15, 2003) for appellants' arguments thereagainst.
Only those arguments actually made by appellants have been
considered in this decision. Arguments which appellants could
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