Appeal No. 96-0209
Application 07/922,501
output a reproduced music signal. The writing clock
signal w generated by decoder 31 is incapable of
affecting the reproduction sequence of the music
information and, thus, the output of the reproduced
music signal, since the writing clock w is never
applied to the elements in the generating path of the
left and right audio signals. It should be noted and
page 24, lines 3 and 4, specifically indicate that
music information refers to audio data.
The read signal r also is incapable of affecting the
reproduction sequence of reproduced music information from the
music information reproduction means, because it, like the write
signal w, is also not applied to the elements in the generating
path of the left and right audio signals. The read signal r is
also not derived from control information on the information
recording medium.
The appellants are correct that in the European '073
reference the reproduction sequence of the musical information
produced by the musical information reproduction means is
unaffected by the clock signal w and that the read clock r is not
a clock signal produced by a control information reproduction
means which decodes the recorded control information. The
appellants are also correct (Br. at 20) that even assuming that
the encoded MIDI signal in the European '073 reference can
constitute the appellants' reproduced music signal, the writing
clock w controls the rate of operation of memory controller 33,
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