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The Thursday 2007-02-01 at 00:23 -0600, M Harris wrote:
> Depends on our definition of "obvious". If I start from scratch and
> write an
> algorithm capable of decoding an mp3 file I have done *nothing* different
> that writing an algorithm (text editor) that can decode a series of symbols
> (text) for displaying on a screen. One is called obvious and the other is
> called patentable... hogwash. The mp3 standard should not have a patent, nor
> should there be any licensing issues with *any* software based mp3 player.
Arguably the idea of using psychoacoustic models for compression of audio
files is novel and not obvious.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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