Appeal No. 2001-1346 Page 3
Application No. 08/771,469
A further understanding of the invention can be achieved by reading the following
claim:
1. A graphic interface system for direct editing of a subband
encoded audio signal having a plurality of frequency subbands, the
system comprising:
a receiver for receiving the subband encoded audio signal;
control logic operative to generate a spectral graph of the subband
encoded audio signal, the spectral graph including an amplitude of each
of the plurality of frequency subbands of the subband encoded audio
signal as a function of time, and to mark at least one selectable edit point
of the subband encoded audio signal, wherein the at least one selectable
edit point includes an amplitude of any one of the plurality of frequency
subbands of the subband encoded audio signal at a selected time;
a display unit for displaying the spectral graph and the at least one
selectable edit point; and
an input device for selecting the at least one selectable edit point.
Claims 1, 2, 17, and 19 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as obvious over
NuWAVE User's Manual Version 1.0 ("NuWave") (Aug. 21, 1996) in view of Syntrillium
Software Corp., Cool Edit 1.51 software ("Cool Edit") <http://www.syntrillium.com/>
(1992-95) and M. Alexander Broadhead and Charles B. Owen ("Broadhead"), Direct
Manipulation of MPEG Compressed Digital Audio, ACM Multimedia 95 - Electronic
Proceedings (Nov. 5-9, 1995). Claim 3 stands rejected under § 103(a) as obvious over
NuWave in view of Cool Edit and Broadhead further in view of Karkheinz Brandenburg
et al., ("Brandenberg"), ISO-MPEG Audio: A Generic Standard for Coding of High-
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