The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for
publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 18
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte TSUHAN CHEN
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Appeal No. 1998-0875
Application No. 08/210,529
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ON BRIEF
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Before HAIRSTON, HECKER, and DIXON, Administrative Patent
Judges.
HAIRSTON, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1, 3
through 11, 13 through 16, 19 and 24 through 26.
The disclosed invention relates to a method and apparatus
for increasing the frame rate of a video signal representative
of a sequence of images received from a speaking person. An
image feature extraction module that analyzes mouth movements,
and a speech recognition module that analyzes speech segments
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