Appeal No. 1999-0043
Application 08/599,875
THE PRIOR ART
The Examiner relies on the following prior art:
Daniels et al. (Daniels) 2,680,239 June 1,
1954
Mizunoe et al. (Mizunoe) 4,998,238 March 5,
1991
Gilovich 5,343,347 August 30,
1994
Kitahara 5,519,676 May 21,
1996
(effective filing date October 11,
1994)
Daniels discloses an apparatus for rapidly selecting a
desired area or point among a group of such areas or points
positioned in a track. The disk embodiment has a clock pulse
track 13 read by a transducer 16, positional data track 14
read by transducer 17, and intelligence track(s) 15 having 10
transducers 18, 18', 18", etc., which "may be interprted [sic]
as indicating either one or more heads, depending on the
number of tracks involved" (col. 3, lines 69-71). When it is
desired to locate certain areas, positional data is read from
track 14 and the difference in position is determined. "With
the difference thus determined, the transducing unit in
closest anticipatory proximity to the area to be selected is
enabled for transducing while the other transducing units
remain unenabled." Col. 1, lines 40-44. Thus, Daniels
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