Appeal No. 97-2757
Application No. 08/412,260
and claims 2 through 6 and 8 through 12 are objected to as
being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be
allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of
the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
The disclosed invention relates to a signal processing
system and method.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it
reads as follows:
1. A signal processing system comprising:
transducer means for receiving an analog signal, the
analog signal including a noise
component and possibly also an
information component, and generating in
response a digital signal;
a noise likelihood determination sub-system for
receiving said digital signal and for generating a
random noise assessment that the digital signal
comprises solely random noise,; and
an information processing sub-system for receiving
said
digital signal and for processing it to extract
said information component if the noise
likelihood determination subsystem determines
that the random noise assessment indicates that
the digital signal does not comprise solely
random noise.
The reference relied on by the examiner is:
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