Appeal No. 96-2383
Application 08/217,418
because the combination of references there does not cure the
deficiencies with respect to Yamauchi alone.
Yamauchi teaches a so-called “karaoke” playback apparatus
utilizing prior art CD-ROM/XA disc stores. The data structure
in which this disc is formatted is taught in Yamauchi to be
consistent with appellant's discussion in the background of
the invention as well as the conventional CD-ROM sector
structures shown in Figure 1. Note also the bottom of column
4 of Yamauchi
indicates that data structures for CD-ROM's have been
standardized in the art. The particular data structures shown
in Figures 2 and 5 of Yamauchi as discussed from columns 4
through 7 are also consistent with the prior art or
conventional CD-ROM data structure of appellant's Figure 1
including a setable real-time flag within the sub mode portion
of the sub-header.
Our detailed study of Yamauchi leads us to conclude as
appellant asserts at the bottom of page 4 of the brief that
Yamauchi “does not appear to teach time-discontinuous
processing, since with karaoke it is both unnecessary and
undesirable to do so.” This argument is continued in the
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