Appeal No. 97-2582
Application 08/484,353
Taguchi et al. 5,206,716 April 27,
1993
(Taguchi)
Ogawa 5,212,556 May 18, 1993
The Rejections on Appeal
Claims 7 and 15-18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Kinoshita and Taguchi.
Claims 8-10 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Kinoshita, Taguchi, and Ogawa.
The Invention
The invention is directed to an electronic still camera
with a two-level push button that controls first and second
switching operations, and to a picture processing method
making use of such a camera. Claims 7, 15 and 17 are the
independent claims and are reproduced below:
7. A method of processing picture data with a
camera having two-level push button, including the steps of:
forming image data of an object;
displaying said image data as a picture on a
display means;
recording said image data in a memory means in
response to a first switching operation performed by pushing
the push button all the way in; and
reproducing and displaying said image data
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