[vorbis] lawyers and patents

[Wilson]

I can't get that specific. We're above my code-level understanding of video
compression. I'll back slowly away from the keyboard now.
Heh.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Moffitt" <jack at xiph.org>
To: <vorbis at xiph.org>
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 2:51 PM
Subject: Re: [vorbis] lawyers and patents

> > IANAL, but what about this one?
> >
http://164.195.100.11/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=/netahtml
> >
/search-adv.htm&r=2&f=G&l=50&d=FT00&p=1&S1=((wavelet.TTL.+AND+video)+AND+3d)
> > &OS=ttl/wavelet+and+video+and+3d&RS=((TTL/wavelet+AND+video)+AND+3d)
>
> First, please reference specific claims.  Which claims (not the
> abstract) are the ones to which you think a 3d wavlet based encoder
> would infringe?
>
> Also note, that 'tarkin' is based on Debauchies 3d wavelets, the code
> basically taken directly from Numerical recipies in C, which I have to
> think is much older than 17 years.  Certainly even if there are claims
> to this idea, they are without basis, as there is plenty of prior art.
>
> jack.
>
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