Appeal No. 1997-4190
Application No. 08/221,721
generating video timing signals; a memory means coupled to the
CCD (column 2, lines 66-67 and Figure 2, item ST) for storing
a full frame image from the CCD; and a means for converting
the full frame image to video signals having a selected format
(column 4, lines 31-34).
The examiner recognizes that Kokubo does not disclose the
claimed control means, the claimed digital image generating
means or the individual memory means coupled to the digital
image generating means for storing a multi-bit digital image.
However, it is the examiner’s position that Hunt supplies all
of the deficiencies of Kobuko and that it would have been
obvious to combine the two teachings. More specifically, it
is the examiner’s position that Hunt discloses a control means
for externally controlling the camera wherein the control
means resets the timing and sync generator means (column 2,
lines 6-18); that Hunt discloses a means for selecting an
internal reset mode and an external reset mode of operation
(column 7, lines 1-5) and that the control means of Hunt
includes a means responsive to an externally supplied
asynchronous reset signal for resetting the timing and sync
generator means (column 3, lines 11-14). The examiner also
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