Appeal No. 1999-1096
Application No. 08/556,746
Appellants' invention relates to a video indexing method
which includes separately storing segments of a video program and
displaying them in separate windows to identify program contents,
with at least one of the segments including motion imagery.
Claim 1 illustrates the claimed invention and reads as follows:
1. A video indexing method, comprising the steps of:
recording a video program having a sequence of images;
separately storing information representative of a subset of
the images, the image subset representing segments of the program
which are separated in time; and
displaying images from the subset in separate windows on a
display device as a way of identifying the contents of the video
program, at least one of the windows displaying a segment
including motion imagery.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Yoshimura et al. (Yoshimura) 5,126,851 Jun. 30, 1992
Kano 5,142,302 Aug. 25, 1992
Henmi et al. (Henmi) 5,390,027 Feb. 14, 1995
Takahashi 5,459,582 Oct. 17, 1995
Mankovitz 5,541,738 Jul. 30, 1996
(filed Apr. 12, 1994)
Claims 1, 5, 10, 11, 16 through 18, 21, 24, 48, and 49 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Takahashi in view of Mankovitz.
Claims 20, 22, 23, and 35 through 41 also stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Takahashi in
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