Appeal No. 1997-4190
Application No. 08/221,721
no suggestion that the skilled artisan would make the sync
generator means responsive thereto. The examiner counters by
contending, in the principal answer, page 28, that it is not
sync generator means, 62, in Hunt on which the examiner relies
for the teaching of the claimed “sync generator means,” but,
rather, the examiner identifies the multi-normal pulse pattern
generator, element 74-MNPPG, of Hunt as the claimed sync
generator means.
While appellant has not responded to this argument of the
examiner, even though two further reply briefs were filed, the
examiner has not convinced us that the MNPPG of Hunt
constitutes the claimed sync generator means. The examiner
contends that MNPPG of Hunt supplies both the timing and sync
signals for control of the CCD, pointing to column 7, lines
12-20 and lines 39-44. However, our review of those sections
of Hunt, directed to an asynchronous trigger mode and the
passing of MNPPG signals to vertical line drivers and the
generation of clock signals via the MNPPG, reveals nothing
suggestive of the claimed control means for resetting both the
timing means and the sync generator means wherein the timing
means generates electronic shutter signals and the sync
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