Appeal No. 2003-1934 Page 7
Application No. 08/821,320
rendition constitutes a pictorial transcript in which each representative frame is printed
with a caption containing the closed-caption text associated therewith." Abs., ll. 17-21.
In creating the pictorial transcript, a user "may . . . process the raw text to remove the
control characters and shift the boundary between adjacent closed-caption segments so
that word fragments are merged into complete words and sentence fragments are
merged into complete sentences." Col. 6, ll. 8-13.
Although the reference allows a user to edit closed-caption text to merge
fragmented words and sentences, we are unpersuaded that the text defines an audio
portion to accompany a video program. To the contrary, Gibbon distinguishes its
closed-caption text from its audio portion, explaining that "[t]he text contains dialog or
other information that corresponds to the audio portion of the program." Col. 3, ll. 22-
23.
The examiner does not allege, let alone show, that the addition of Stelovsky
cures the aforementioned deficiency of Gibbon. For its part, Klingler "provide[s] a video
digital image processing system which is integrated with conventional word processing
programs so that scripts corresponding to existing or desired scenes in a movie can be
linked with corresponding digital video image clips." Col. 1, l. 66 - col. 2, l. 2. The
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