Appeal 2006-3341 Application 10/266,491 Appellants have described this embodiment of their invention in the following manner: In other embodiments, the OSD information for the STB is transmitted out of the STB along the digital transport stream, along with the HD digital data, via a high speed digital interface, such as IEEE1394. The HDTV demultiplexes and decodes the digital transport stream to extract the OSD information for display on the HDTV monitor. Thus, functions in the STB can be accessed from the displayed OSD information. Specification 5, last paragraph. This application is a continuation of application number 09/243,752, which issued as U.S. patent number 6,490,002 (‘002). The claims in the ‘002 patent addressed an embodiment of the invention using a separate analog signal path containing the OSD information. In the instant application, there is a single path containing both the TV signal, and the OSD information. In the claims under appeal, only claims 28 and 31 indicate that the OSD information is sent from the receiver in analog form. In Figure 5 of the Van Der Meer patent we find a device receiving at least one TV signal in a receiver circuit. The signal is described as a digital MPEG2 video, audio and graphics signal, the latter being commonly used for subtitles in television programming. The Examiner took official notice that the HDTV of claim 222 could be read on the MPEG2 receiver and display of Van Der Meer. In support of that official notice, Examiner presented the Auld patent, which states in column 2, line 33: “The MPEG-2 standard is similar to the MPEG-1 standard, but includes extensions to cover a wider range of applications, 2 Claim 22 reads in relevant part: “A method of displaying information on a monitor of a high definition television (HDTV)… . 4Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next
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