Appeal No. 1998-0061
Application No. 08/364,101
specification). The recovered signal components are
transmitted to a microcomputer G which displays the rates and
which compares those rates with data stored in a RAM memory to
produce an alarm if any discrepancies are detected (see column
3, lines 29-47 of the Nedivi specification). There is no
argument in appellant’s brief that Nedivi’s fast Fourier
transform processor will not produce spectral energy peaks
characterizing the heartbeat and respiration rates in the
manner claimed in the appealed claims.
In short, there is no argument that Nedivi’s fast Fourier
transform processor differs from appellant’s fast Fourier
transform processor.
Thus, in sum, Fraden suggests the concept of utilizing a
single piezoelectric transducer in the form of a pad to sense
both the heartbeat and respiration rates of the patient and of
analyzing the resulting voltage signal to monitor the
heartbeat and respiration rates, while Nedivi suggests the
concept of analyzing the digitized forms of the signal
components in a fast Fourier transform processor to recover
the rate information. According to the examiner (see, for
example, page 3 of the final office action (Paper No. 6)), it
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