Appeal No. 1999-0440
Application 08/813,706
obvious to provide separate sound data memories in Ota for the
advantages of separate memories taught by Glick [answer, pages
4-5].
We will not sustain the examiner’s rejection of claim
4. Ota teaches that video data and audio data can be
processed separately. For example, the video data in Ota is
stored in memories 21a and 21b whereas the sound data is
decoded and outputted directly to terminal 57. There are no
sound memories in Ota for storing only sound data. Glick adds
nothing to Ota because Ota already teaches that dedicated
memories can be provided for just the video data [RAMs 21a and
21b]. Thus, the examiner’s reliance on Glick teaching the use
of dedicated memories adds nothing to Ota. The video memories
of Ota or Glick do not provide any motivation for providing
the claimed one or more sound memories for storing only sound
data in Ota because Ota does not rely on sound memories at
all. Ota is a simple CD player for reproducing sound and
video information from a CD. There is no need for the Ota
system to use memories for storing sound data. The examiner
has failed to provide any rational basis why the artisan would
have been motivated to place one or more sound memories in Ota
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