Appeal No. 1998-0875
Application No. 08/210,529
synchronization with the speaker’s speech received at the
receiver (pages 12 and 13; Figure 7).
In Ejiri, terminal 2 (Figure 3) contains a voice
recognizer unit 4 that recognizes a voice received over line 1
(translation, page 6). The voice data output from voice
recognizer unit 4 is sent to control unit 6 where a query is
made to image storage device 12 for a previously stored image
of a person that matches the recognized voice. If a match is
found, then a synthesized image of the person in image storage
device 12 that matches the recognized voice is combined with
the received voice by control unit 6 to give the viewers of
the display 11 the illusion that they actually see the person
talking to them (translation, pages 6, 7, 9 and 10).
Appellant argues (Brief, page 11) that “Welsh deals with
coding video signals corresponding to images at the
transmitting side, at two different rates.” According to the
appellant (brief, page 11), “[t]he slow moving portion of each
image is coded at one frame rate and the faster moving
portions of each image is [sic, are] coded at a faster frame
rate.” Appellant concludes (brief, page 12) that “[t]here is
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