Appeal No. 1997-4190
Application No. 08/221,721
Reference is made to the briefs and answers for the
respective positions of appellant and the examiner.
OPINION
At the outset, we note that, in accordance with
appellant’s grouping of the claims at page 8 of the principal
brief, the following claims stand or fall together within each
delineated group: Group I: 1-3, 5, 6, 8-11; Group II: 12;
Group III: 13-15; Group IV: 16-20. Thus, for purposes of this
appeal, we need look at only independent claims 1, 12 and 13
and dependent claim 16.
We turn first to the rejection of independent claim 1.
It is the examiner’s position that Kokubo discloses an
electronic shutter camera with full frame resolution
comprising a scanning interline transfer charge coupled device
(CCD) for imaging a frame of information (column 4, line 12);
a timing means for generating electronic shutter signals for
controlling the scanning and charge transfer rate for the CCD
(column 3, lines 13-21); a sync generator means (7) for
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