Appeal No. 96-0308
Application No. 07/854,192
and reusing it for another one. Lacking such a rationale in the
prior art, we will not sustain this rejection.
Claim 22
Claim 22 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102 as
anticipated by Dittakavi.
Claim 22 calls for (1) a bar code label; (2) a voice
recorder capable of recording a vocal message as voice input into
a storage device corresponding to the bar code label; and (3)
retrieving means capable of reproducibly retrieving the message
and operable to reproduce and vocalize the recorded vocal
message.
Dittakavi discloses a synthetic speech system that decodes
an input bar code and consults a look up table to retrieve frames
of associated digital information. Dittakavi’s look up table
contains synthetic speech codes such as allophones that may each
correspond to one letter of the alphabet. The frames are fed to
a synthesizer which creates audible material from the digital
information. Column 3, lines 6-36. For example, Figure 1 shows
a book that has bar codes under the written text. The
synthesizing apparatus reads the bar codes and synthesizes the
sounds of each word in the text.
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