Appeal No. 97-0673
Application 08/143,370
and (B) in the embodiment shown in Figure 3(A) of Kamiwano can
take the form of the planar phototransistor matrix shown in
Figure 2. Note also the grid-like pattern shown at the top of
each sensor (A) and (B) in Figure 3(a), which also reasonably
suggests that there are multiple rows of the linearly arranged
array. Additionally, see also the image illustrated in
Kamiwano’s Figure 3(b), it shows multiple pixels for each row
occupied by the particle image detected by each sensor, which
would have suggested to one with ordinary skill in the art
plural rows of phototransistors together forming a planar two
dimensional image sensor.
The appellants offer no response to explain away or
otherwise rebut the examiner’s reasonable position with regard
to Kamiwano’s Figure 2 and discussion in connection therewith.
The appellants are also incorrect that in Kamiwano an image is
reconstructed rather than detected. The "reconstitute"
language at the top of page 13 of Kamiwano is merely referring
to reproducing an image from stored image data to provide it
to a display device. It does not mean that in Kamiwano the
particle image is not initially detected by a two dimensional
imager. For all of the foregoing reasons, the argument that
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