Ex parte KANE et al. - Page 6




          Appeal No. 96-0338                                                          
          Application 08/095,179                                                      


          formula specified.  The system is said to operate in                        
          accordance with speech pauses and also taught to operate with               
          a continuous updating of noise power spectrums in a different               
          embodiment.  The succeeding discussion at the first column of               
          page 85 relates to further aspects of this noise reduction                  
          technique.                                                                  
               However, the overall concept of Kroschel's disclosure is               
          brought back into perspective in accordance with that shown at              
          Figure 1 at the bottom of page 82 of this reference in the                  
          topic headings “Speech Recognition With Noise Reduction” at                 
          the middle of the second column of page 85.  There, the                     
          discussion relates to both a modular and integrated noise                   
          reduction and speech recognition system.  It is clear,                      
          however, that the discussion here is consistent with the                    
          Figure 1 discussion at page 82 since the intent is that the                 
          noise reduction system is followed by a speech recognition                  
          system, which speech recognition system is                                  
          taught to utilize one of the previously discussed cepstral                  
          coding approaches originally discussed at column 1 on page 83               
          of this reference.                                                          


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