Appeal No. 1998-2933
Application 08/439,082
Claim 1 recites "a control unit for controlling a
receptive state of said signal receiver in response to the
processed remote control signal," but does not recite that the
receptive state is between active/inactive
(continuous/standby) modes. The APA discloses switching
between continuous/standby modes in response to a detected
electric field of the remote control signal. Claim 1 recites
that the receptive state is controlled "in response to the
processed remote control signal," which does not require
control in response to identifying the idling information.
Claim 1 does not exclude use of an electric field detector
(compare claim 11) and so the "processed remote control
signal" could be the signal processed by the electric field
detector in the APA. While the control unit detects a
transmission "by identifying the idling information," it is
not recited how this detection is used, if at all, to control
the signal receiver except that it is inferred to be part of
the processing of the remote control signal. In fact, claim 1
does not specify that the idling information precedes the data
information so that it could be used to change the receptive
state for receiving the data information; compare claim 6
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