Appeal No. 95-0394 Application No. 08/065,786 from the examiner’s final rejection of claims 10-17. Claims 1-9 were indicated by the examiner as being allowed. The disclosed invention pertains to a method and apparatus for generating a wipe solid. A wipe solid is used for creating transitions between two video signals. The invention of independent claim 10 is directed to the method for loading data into memories having a specific relationship to the data and reading the data from these memories along with a video signal to generate a wipe solid signal. Independent claim 10 on appeal is reproduced as follows: 10. A method of generating a wipe solid, comprising: (a) calculating numerical values, (b) loading numerical values into a first memory having one memory location for each pixel during the active interval of a line of a video signal, (c) loading numerical values into a second memory having one memory location for each active line during a field of a video signal, (d) reading numerical values from the first and second memories synchronously with a video signal, and (e) carrying out a combinational arithmetic 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007