Appeal 2007-1658
Application 09/838,428
Loui US 6,813,618 B1 Nov. 02, 2004
Bergen US 6,956,573 B1 Oct. 18, 2005
Isabel F. Cruz (Cruz), A User-Centered Interface for Querying Distributed
Multimedia Databases, ACM SIGMOD Record, Vol. 28, Issue 2, 590-93,
(1999).
Claims 1, 3 through 6, 8, 10 through 13, 15, and 17 through 20 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Loui in view
of Bergen.
Claims 7, 14, and 21 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Loui in view of Bergen and Cruz.
We refer to the Examiner's Answer (mailed October 11, 2006) and to
Appellants' Brief (filed September 12, 2006) for the respective arguments.
SUMMARY OF DECISION
As a consequence of our review, we will affirm the obviousness
rejection of claims 1, 3 through 6, 8, 10 through 13, 15, and 17 through 20,
but reverse the obviousness rejection of claims 7, 14, and 21.
OPINION
Appellants contend (Br. 13-17) that Loui and Bergen fail to suggest
plural moving video frames with a first set of text data associated in time
with first moving video frames and a second set of text data associated in
time with second moving video frames. Appellants further contend that
Loui and Bergen fail to teach extracting a first video frame associated with
the first set of text data and a second video frame associated with the second
text data set to form first and second still images. The main issue, therefore,
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