Appeal No. 96-2997
Application 08/179,458
7 and 14 are "not appeal[ed]" (Brief, page 2). Thus, claims 7 and 14 stand withdrawn, and only claims
1, 5, 6, 8, 12, and 13 remain on appeal.
BACKGROUND
The subject matter on appeal is directed to the field of slow motion video (specification, page
1), and in particular, to a method and apparatus for providing slow motion video at normal motion
playing speed through the use of replicated frames (specification, page 2; and all claims 1, 5, 6, 8, 12,
and 13 on appeal). As indicated in the specification (page 2), a stream of video data frames is dilated
or replicated in order to provide slow motion, and the dilated stream contains copies or replications of
the frames which are to be played in slow motion. Either a constant replication value (i.e., constant time
dilation) can be used to copy the frames, or a non-constant value (i.e., skewed time dilation) can be
used to copy the frames (specification, pages 2 to 3). In general, appellant’s invention recited in all of
the independent claims on appeal (method claims 1, 5, and 6, and apparatus claims 8, 12, and 13)
seeks to provide a slow motion video method and apparatus which replicates certain frames in a video
stream a greater number of times than other frames in the video stream. As further discussed, infra, we
find that the applied reference to Poulett fails to teach or suggest at least this feature as it is recited in
each of the claims on appeal.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A computer implemented method of providing slow motion to a video information stream
that is provided to a display, said video information stream containing frames, each of said frames
2
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