Appeal No. 96-1021
Application 08/143,512
apparatus comprising:
a keyboard for inputting the number of prints to
be made of particular ones of the image frames and a criterion
representing a characteristic of the image within an image frame
that is to be used to identify the particular image frame;
a film scanner for scanning the images within each
image frame and generating signals representing the images
scanned;
a computer programmed to analyze the scanned
images and the particular image frames based on the criterion;
and
a printer for printing the particular images
according to the number inputted having those characteristics of
the particular image frames wherein the computer is programmed to
analyze the pre-scan data to identify indoor versus outdoor
scenes by comparing the peripheral and central densities of an
image.
The examiner’s Answer cites the following prior art:
Terashita 5,023,656 Jun. 11, 1991
Cosgrove 5,157,482 Oct. 20, 1992
Shimizu 5,159,444 Oct. 27, 1992
Hutcheson et al. 5,161,204 Nov. 3, 1992
(Hutcheson ‘204)
Hutcheson et al. 5,274,714 Dec. 28, 1993
(Hutcheson ‘714)
OPINION
Hutcheson in view of Terashita
Claims 45, 49, 53, 57, 61, 69, 73, and 77 stand rejected
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