Appeal No. 2003-1858
Application No. 09/073,871
are absent in the reference. Shipp relates to a system for
generating electronic and printed reports of medical treatments
and procedures wherein captured images are combined with dictated
text into integrated medical records (col. 1, lines 5-10). Shipp
discloses that during or after the surgical procedure, the
surgeon dictates pertinent information describing the medical
procedure related to the video image observed on a monitor from
which still images are selected for storage (col. 3, lines 12-
17). Additionally, Shipp discloses that the voice recognition
includes features for recognizing certain words as commands for
operating the system such as one for frame grab command which
captures a frame from the video string and delivers to the
storage device (col. 3, lines 46-59). Therefore, the still
images are merely captured and stored as the surgeon commands
without being detected for the change over from one still image
to another.
As discussed above, what the Examiner characterizes in Shipp
as detecting the change over from one still image to another when
a voice command is received (answer, page 11), is actually a
voice recognition feature of the system that helps the surgeon to
operate the system by speaking the commands. In fact, the
surgeon decides which frame from the video image should be stored
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