Appeal No. 96-3994
Application 08/260,485
This is a decision on the appeal from the examiner's
final rejection of claims 1 through 10, which constitute all
the claims in the application. Of these claims, only claims 1
through 8 remain on appeal since the examiner has indicated
the allow-ability of claims 9 and 10 in the supplemental
examiner's answer mailed on June 12, 1996.
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A camera provided with an aperture controllable
shutter having a diaphragm, comprising:
a photographing lens having a variable focal length to be
set in a desirable focal length, the full open aperture
diameter thereof being constant as the focal length varies so
that the full open aperture value thereof is varied;
a detector which detects the set focal length of the
lens;
a first decision means for determining the extent to
which the aperture diameter is capable of being controlled
toward an opening direction of the aperture controllable
shutter in accordance with the focal length detected by said
detector;
a light metering device which measures the brightness of
an object to be taken;
a driving mechanism which actuates the diaphragm of the
aperture controllable shutter for opening the aperture;
a second decision means for determining the movement of
the diaphragm of the aperture controllable shutter in
accordance with the full-aperture diameter determined by the
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