Appeal No. 95-4351
Application 08/048,109
include audio, slow-scan video, digital, or analog information
(col. 1, lines 17-21).
Horvath discloses an audio-visual system in which
audio-visual cartridges are inserted into a housing that
resembles a television set and has a rear-projection screen. The
cartridge contains a circular disc on which photographic images
are recorded and an endless magnetic tape on which are recorded
audio signals and control signals. Detection of a control signal
results in a brake pawl being momentarily removed from one of the
brake notches in the edge of the circular disc, thereby allowing
the disc to be rotated by the drive motor to the next brake notch
so as to display the next picture (col. 7, lines 13-39). The
drive motor is a continuous motor rather than a stepping motor.
Hattori discloses goggles which include liquid-crystal
display devices and earphones. The audio and video signals may
be provided by television receiving circuitry.
The examiner also contends that it is well known in the
art to use a stepping motor in a film projector (Answer at 4).
Assuming for the sake of argument that it would have
been obvious in view of Cannon to record Taylor's cue signals as
ultrasonic signals which are separable from the audio information
by means of a high pass filter, we are not persuaded that it also
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