Appeal No. 1998-0733
Application 08/489,867
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from
the final rejection of claims 1-8.
We reverse.
BACKGROUND
The disclosed invention is directed to a television
signal receiver in which the television signal is digitized
and a plurality of processing operations (sync separation,
subcarrier regeneration, etc.) are executed on the digital
signal by a central processing unit executing stored control
programs. This avoids specially developed integrated circuits
with fixed processing power and functionality.
Claim 1, the sole independent claim, is reproduced below.
1. A television signal receiver comprising a plurality
of processing means for executing respective processing
operations on a received television signal, characterized
in that each processing operation is laid down in a
control program stored in a memory and in that the
plurality of processing means is constituted by a single
processing unit which consecutively executes selected
ones of the control programs in synchronism with the
television signal.
The Examiner relies on the following prior art:
Mogi et al. (Mogi) 4,743,968 May 10, 1988
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