Appeal No. 1997-4140 Page 4
Application No. 08/279,628
represents channel, the method comprising the steps
of:
selecting a descriptor of a television program
to be recorded on the VCR;
reading the bar code in one of the sets that
corresponds to the cell in which the selected
descriptor is located to identify the time of the
selected descriptor;
reading the bar code in the other set that
corresponds to the cell in which the selected
descriptor is located to identify the channel of the
selected descriptor;
converting the read bar codes to time and
channel signals; and
applying the time and channel signals to the VCR
to record the program represented by the selected
descriptor.
The references relied on in rejecting the claims follow:
Kajitani et al. (Kajitani) 4,841,132 Jun. 20, 1989
Shibuya et al. (Shibuya) 5,056,070 Oct. 8, 1991
Yuen et al. (Yuen) 5,335,079 Aug. 2, 1994
(filed Mar. 27,
1991).
Claims 27 and 28 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
obvious over Kajitani in view of Yuen and Shibuya. Rather
than repeat the arguments of the appellant or examiner in
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