Appeal No. 1997-4140 Page 3
Application No. 08/279,628
bar codes for times, along another side. Each cell lies at
the intersection of a channel bar code and a time bar code and
contains a TV program descriptor.
To program a VCR using the TV calendar, a user first
finds the descriptor of a TV program to be recorded. He then
moves a BCR vertically to the column heading to scan the time
bar code for the program. The user last moves the BCR
horizontally to the row heading to scan the bar code for the
program. The scanned bar codes are converted to data, which
are applied to the VCR to instruct it to record the desired
program.
Claim 27, which is representative for our purposes,
follows:
27. A method of controlling a VCR with
a television calendar having a rectangular grid of
cells arranged in horizontal rows and vertical
columns, a television program descriptor located in
each cell, a first set of bar codes arranged along
one side of the grid, a second set of bar codes
arranged along another side of the grid
perpendicular to the first set so each cell lies at
the intersection of a bar code in the one set that
represents time and a bar code in the other set that
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