Appeal No. 2000-0546
Application 08/509,228
Baker generate speaker position data as three dimensional data
does not establish an element of a claim. Third, this argument
is directed to modifying Baker to obtain speaker position data.
This is a determination under obviousness and not a determination
under anticipation as that which is before us.
Thus, we fail to find that Baker discloses “a beamformer . .
. operable . . . to generate from the audio signal speaker
position data representing a position of the speaker as
coordinates for a point in space” as recited in claim 1 or the
step of processing an audio signal “to generate speaker position
data representing the position of the speaker as coordinates for
a point in space” as recited in claim 20. Appellants have shown
that speaker position data must be three dimensional and
represents the position of the speaker as a point in space.
Since claim 12 does not recite the generation of data to
represent the position of the speaker as coordinates for a point
in space, we will treat the claim separately. As discussed above
Baker does not disclose generating speaker position data having
coordinates in three dimensions. Additionally, Baker provides no
disclosure of a camera controller operable to receive speaker
position data representing the position of the speaker as
coordinates for a point in space or operable to provide camera
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