Appeal No. 1998-1323
Application 08/252,861
critical because appellants argue that Takahashi does not
process a frame having first and second media components. The
examiner has improperly redefined the invention as nothing
more than associating video information with non-video
information. Based on this redefinition, the examiner finds
that the keywords entered by input unit 15 of Takahashi
associate non-video information (the keywords) with video
information (the frames from block 11). Appellants argue that
the keywords of Takahashi are not information-bearing media
components as recited in claim 1 [brief, page 6].
We agree with the position argued by appellants.
Claim 1, for example, recites a correspondence formed between
representative frames based on first information-bearing media
components and a segment of second information-bearing media
components. An information-bearing media component refers to
the video, audio or text which carries the information on the
medium. The keywords added by the user in Takahashi do not
represent an information-bearing media component. They are
simply locators for the information. The examiner’s assertion
that it would have been obvious to modify the input unit of
Takahashi to input closed caption data or audio data is
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