Appeal No. 2003-0593
Application 08/329,345
text data stream clause of the claims on appeal as best stated at
pages 8 and 9 of the brief. The program titles of Kim and/or the
program schedule information of Young may be properly considered
as "news items" to the extent recited in the claims on appeal.
There is no dispute that program scheduling information of this
nature is advanced in time before the beginning of given news
items as recited in the claims on appeal. However, these
references do not teach the additional requirements that the
claimed time advanced text data stream of the so-called "news
items" "substantially correspond to the spoken words of the audio
portion of the composite video signal stream" as set forth in
each independent claim on appeal.
Baer, on the other hand, teaches a captioning system that
does in fact substantially correspond to the spoken words of an
audio portion of a composite video signal stream. If we consider
that all audio information in a composite audio plus video data
stream in Baer comprises news items of the type claimed, Baer's
captioning system does not generate advanced in time information
"before the beginning of the given news item" as required by each
independent claim on appeal. Significantly, the captioning
information is contemporaneous at best or slightly behind in
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