Appeal No. 1997-3225
Application No. 08/351,218
the same aspect in another image in the database,” where the
database is “a database of images . . . corresponds to a unit
part of said action.” As we have found that Terzopoulos is
not properly combined with Lee and Lavagetto, the reasons set
forth above with respect to claim 6 also apply. Accordingly,
we will not sustain the rejection of claims 35 through 37, 41
through 47, 58 through 62, 66, 70, 71 and 72.
Claims 48 and 79 are independent claims and contain
limitations of analyzing a video sample to determine an image
which best represents a unit of speech and saving it in a
database. Specifically, claim 48 contains the limitations of
“obtaining a sample of the subject speaking,” “determining a
part of the sample which best represents a particular unit” of
speech and “storing an image in the database representative of
said part of the sample which best represents the particular
unit and an indication of the particular unit.” We find that
the feature of
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