Appeal No. 96-0139
Application 08/037,683
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the
examiner's rejection of claims 3-5 and 7, all of the pending
claims, under 35 U.S.C. §§ 112 and 103. We reverse both 2
rejections.
The invention relates to video tape recorders (VTRs)
having
a built-in camera unit and an electronic viewfinder. In the
prior art VTR shown in Figure 1, the camera unit 1 includes an
imager device 3 supplying an analog signal to signal processor
4, which generates an composite analog video signal V on line
5 (Spec. at 1, lines 18-25). The electronic viewfinder 7
includes a circuit 8 for separating the Y and C components and
applying them to a decoder 9, which applies analog R, G, and B
signals to LCD (liquid crystal display) driver 10 for driving
LCD 11 (Spec. at 1, line 26 to 2, line 3). This circuit
arrangement is described as suffering from the problem that
"the waveform of the analog composite video signal V is
2Claim 2, which was rejected in the final Office action,
was canceled by the "THIRD AMENDMENT AFTER FINAL," which was
filed and entered approved for entry by the examiner after
mailing of the Answer.
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