Appeal No. 2004-0123
Application No. 09/118,922 Page 9
a normal mode but are subtitles which are especially constructed
to be played back during the trick play mode.” We find from our
review of Tsukagoshi that the reference is directed to decoding
subtitles to be displayed exclusively during the trick playback
mode by reading out the subtitle from a subtitle address stored
on the record medium (col. 3, lines 18-22). From the disclosure
of Tsukagoshi, we find that the subtitle data is transferred from
code buffer 22-1 to the display memory 22-2 when the subtitle
portion of the PTS is aligned with the SCR (col. 7, lines 17-23).
Tsukagoshi further discloses that the subtitles displayed in
trick playback mode may be of different textual content from the
normal playback subtitles (col. 11, lines 29-31) and adds that
the trick mode playback subtitles may be played back without the
normal playback subtitles or the video picture, which allows the
viewer to scan only the trick mode subtitles (col. 11, lines 31-
37). We agree with the examiner's assertion (answer, page 13)
that the disclosure in Tsukagoshi that the subtitles for a trick
play mode may be different textual context from the subtitles for
a normal playback mode, does not mean that the subtitles for
trick playback mode are always different from the subtitles
designated for normal replay mode. However, we find that this is
not a suggestion of skipping any of the subtitles. We do not
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