Appeal No. 95-1109
Application 07/917,380
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from
the final rejection of claims 1-10 and 14-15. Claims 11-13
stand objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base
claim, but are indicated as being allowable if rewritten in
independent form including all of the limitations of the base
claims and any intervening claims. We reverse.
The invention is directed to a method and apparatus for
discriminating whether a compact disk (CD) or laser disk (LD)
is loaded in a dual-purpose laser disk player.
Claim 1 is reproduced below.2
1. A disk sensing apparatus, comprising:
a disk sensor for sensing whether a disk is
loaded on a clamper;
a pickup;
laser disk discriminating means for detecting a
data domain of a laser disk according to the output of a
tilt sensor mounted on the pickup, said laser disk
discriminating means comprising:
detecting means for receiving light
reflected from said disk in response
to light output by said tilt sensor
and outputting a level value
It is noted that the word "determining" in the sixth2
from the last line of claim 1, as reproduced, incorrectly
appears as "determing" in the claims in the appendix to the
brief and is misspelled in the amendment after final filed
July 7, 1994 (Paper No. 17), but is spelled correctly in the
amendment filed November 15, 1993 (Paper No. 8).
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