Appeal No. 96-2383
Application 08/217,418
context of claim 6 on appeal at page 5 of the brief where it
is further argued that even in the detailed discussions of
Figure 2 and the various portions of Figure 5 there is no
indication in these figures or the written description portion
of the specification “that the recording medium contains
identification information indicating that a file should be
time-discontinuously processed.” From our study of Yamauchi,
we have the same doubts as expressed at page 6 of the brief
that a conventional karaoke playback apparatus has displays of
successive phrases of lyrics which appear to continuously
change in synchronism with the music, thus
apparently causing these visual displays to be continuously
processed at the same time in synchronism with the music by a
control means.
Yamauchi does not teach in the written description
portion or show in any of the figures that data is per se
processed in a time-continuous or time-discontinuous manner.
Audio information reproduced from a CD-ROM is that type of
data that would be continuously processed, which would be
consistent with that portion of independent claim 6 on appeal.
However, serious doubts are raised by the absence of specific
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