Ex Parte FUCHS et al

Patent Trial and Appeal BoardFeb 27, 2019

14811386 (P.T.A.B. Feb. 27, 2019)

UNITED STA TES p A TENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE APPLICATION NO. FILING DATE 14/811,386 07/28/2015 22918 7590 03/01/2019 PERKINS COIE LLP - PAO General P.O. BOX 1247 SEATTLE, WA 98111-1247 FIRST NAMED INVENTOR Guillaume FUCHS UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE United States Patent and Trademark Office Address: COMMISSIONER FOR PATENTS P.O. Box 1450 Alexandria, Virginia 22313-1450 www .uspto.gov ATTORNEY DOCKET NO. CONFIRMATION NO. 110971-8890.USOl 6555 EXAMINER CHAWAN, VIJAYB ART UNIT PAPER NUMBER 2658 NOTIFICATION DATE DELIVERY MODE 03/01/2019 ELECTRONIC Please find below and/or attached an Office communication concerning this application or proceeding. The time period for reply, if any, is set in the attached communication. Notice of the Office communication was sent electronically on above-indicated "Notification Date" to the following e-mail address(es): patentprocurement@perkinscoie.com PTOL-90A (Rev. 04/07) UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD Ex parte GUILLAUME FUCHS, TOM BAECKSTROEM, RALF GEIGER, WOLFGANG JAEGERS, and EMMANUEL RA VELLI Appeal2018-005849 Application 14/811,3 86 Technology Center 2600 Before DENISE M. POTHIER, LINZY T. McCARTNEY, and NORMAN H. BEAMER, Administrative Patent Judges. McCARTNEY, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL Appellants seek review under 35 U.S.C. Â§ 134 of the Examiner's final rejection of claims 1-27. We have jurisdiction under 35 U.S.C. Â§ 6(b). We reverse. Appeal2018-005849 Application 14/811,3 86 BACKGROUND The present patent application concerns "an approach for adaptive tilt compensation in shaping the codes of a [ code excited linear predictive coding] in an innovative or fixed codebook." Specification 1: 17-18, filed July 28, 2015. Claim 1 illustrates the claimed invention: 1. An apparatus for synthesizing an audio signal, comprising: a processing unit configured to apply a spectral tilt to the code of a codebook used for synthesizing a current frame of the audio signal, wherein the spectral tilt is based on the spectral tilt of the current frame of the audio signal, wherein the apparatus is configured to determine the spectral tilt of the current frame of the audio signal on the basis of spectral envelope information for the current frame of the audio signal, and wherein the processing unit is configured to apply the spectral tilt by filtering the code from the codebook based on a transfer function modeling the spectral tilt. Replacement Claims Appendix 2, filed December 15, 2017 ("Replacement App'x"). REJECTION