Appeal No. 2002-1960
Application No. 08/821,321
consideration the duration of the video section and the rate of
reading (specification, page 1). The amount of entered text to
be displayed simultaneously with the display of the video may
exceed the amount that can be fitted into a section of text.
According to Appellants, for each section of the script, an
active text sub-section and an overflow or inactive text sub-
section are displayed according to time codes indicating the
start of each section of text and a user-variable reading rate
(specification, page 5).
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. An editing system for associating text with a video
sequence the frames of which have time codes associated
therewith, the system comprising:
means for simultaneously displaying a sequence of video
frames and a sequence of text associated with the sequence of
video frames,
a video store for storing the sequence of frames to be
displayed and the associated time codes (VC),
a text store for storing the sequence of associated text,
means for defining time codes (TC) in the text, the time
codes in the text corresponding to time codes in the video
sequence and indicating sections of the text, which are
associated with corresponding sections of the video sequence,
means for defining a user-variable rate (n) of reading the
words of text, and
means for indicating on the display the extent of the text
which matches the associated section of the video sequence, the
text that matches being non-overflow text, and wherein any
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