Appeal No. 2002-1960
Application No. 08/821,321
points are determined and decisions are made as to which take to
use or what changes to make (col. 5, lines 3-12). While the
recorded data is played back, as depicted in Figures 5-7, a
script is manually marked to indicate various takes and the
editing points (col. 5, lines 15-19). These markings also add
suspension dots to the script at points where a narration pause
is needed, with the number of dots representing the length of the
pause (col. 14, lines 19-23). Chippendale further teaches that
vertical lines are also drawn alongside the script wherein a
stopped line indicates the point the narrator made a mistake and
a line to the right indicates a retake (col. 14, lines 23-32).
Therefore, we agree with Appellants (brief, page 7) that
Chippendale’s inserting dots to indicate a narration pause,
merely facilitates subsequent narration and has nothing to do
with indicating the overflow text for associating text with a
video sequence.
Assuming, arguendo, that it would have been obvious to
utilize the subtitle editor of Parks and audiovisual control of
Chippendale in Klingler’s video processing, as held by the
Examiner, the combination of references would still not disclose
anything related to indicating the overflow text and the extent
of displaying it relative to the non-overflow text based on a
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