Appeal No. 2002-0763
Application No. 09/039,111
a plurality of N coder modules, each module associated
with a separate video source for recording video information
and forming a digital representation thereof, each code
module including control means for inserting source and line
information into each digital line representation; and
a video multiplexer for sequentially multiplexing the
digital representations formed by the plurality of N coder
modules to form a composite video output signal.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Justice 3,745,242 Jul. 10, 1973
Yuasa et al. (Yuasa) 4,679,077 Jul. 7, 1987
Radice 5,138,440 Aug. 11, 1992
Claims 1 through 5 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being unpatentable over Justice in view of Radice.
Claims 6 through 10 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being unpatentable over Justice in view of Radice and Yuasa.
Reference is made to the first Office Action (paper number
5), the brief (paper number 11) and the answer (paper number 12)
for the respective positions of the appellant and the examiner.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the entire record before us,
and we will reverse the obviousness rejection of claims 1 through
10.
Appellant has not challenged the examiner’s findings (first
Office Action, pages 4 and 5) that Justice discloses an analog
video multiplexer that multiplexes a plurality of video sources
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