Appeal No. 1997-1240
Application 07/881,753
required to meet the limitations of claim 1 and similar
features of claims 18, 20 and 22.
In the supplemental Examiner's answer on page 4, the
Examiner repeats that the feature of the high definition
processing for applying to the outputted double rate signal a
scanning line conversion processing to convert the same into a
signal having the same format as that of the high definition
television signal and the same field frequency as that of the
standard television signal as specified in the claimed
invention is noted to be an inherent characteristic of
Katsumata, because Katsumata discloses that the signal
outputted from figure 11,
component 1103, to be a double rate signal, high definition
signal, of 30 Hz field frequency as required by Appellants'
claims. On page 9 of the supplemental Examiner's answer, the
Examiner repeats the above argument and further states that it
is noted that whether one component performs the two functions
or two components perform the same two functions is merely
considered as well known design options obvious to one of
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