Appeal No. 96-2748
Application 08/008,813
Therefore, the examiner relies upon the teachings in Sassler
which does generate various control signals in a multiplexed
satellite communication environment. We surmise that the
examiner considers the record capability of the disclosed and
claimed invention analogous to the transmit portions in Figure
1 of Sassler and the corresponding reproduction features of the
disclosed and claimed invention to correspond to the receiver
portion of Figure 2 of Sassler. This reference generates various
control signals to allow a satellite transmitted video signal
to be more able to occupy the available transponder deviation
frequency allotted to the channel such as to allow one trans-
ponder’s channel to transmit two video channels. We cannot
independently verify that Sassler’s control signals are utilized
to adjust the luminance signal in the ROM 62 in Figures 1 and 3
of this reference as alleged by the examiner. The control
signals in Sassler do not appear to be representative of an
amplitude level of the high frequency portion of the luminance
signal as required by claim 1 on appeal but of all portions of
a video signal. A minimum level signal value appears to be
transmitted along with control information which allows the
receiver to reconstruct the original video signal. The mere
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