Appeal No. 96-0649
Application 08/191,234
Appellant has appealed to the Board from the examiner’s
final rejection of claims 1, 7 and 18, which constitute all
the claims remaining in the application.
Representative claim 18 is reproduced below:
18. A method of determining camera-induced scene changes
in a sequence of visual information-bearing frames
constituting a single shot, said method comprising the steps
of:
(a) generating a signal representing camera-induced
motion between each of a plurality of pairs of frames within a
single camera shot;
(b) summing a plurality of the signals for a plurality of
pairs of frames to form a first cumulative signal; and
(c) generating an indicator signal that indicates a scene
change when the first cumulative signal meets a certain
decision criterion.
The following references are relied on by the examiner:
Gove 5,099,322 Mar. 24,
1992
Miyatake et al. (Miyatake) 5,267,034 Nov. 30, 1993
Claims 1, 7 and 18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner relies upon Gove in
view of Miyatake.
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