Appeal No. 96-1457
Application No. 08/098,165
focal length. The teachings of Ohmura are not
sufficient to overcome this contrary teaching of the
prior art represented by Cummins.
We agree. If both wide angle and telephoto lenses are used in
Cummins, then Cummins would not be a “portrait camera” with
“focus and the aperture fixed relative to a subject.” A camera
with both types of lenses is incapable of producing a plurality
of like pictures of a single pose of a subject. The obviousness
rejection of claims 1, 5, 6, 8 through 10 and 14 is reversed.
The obviousness rejection of claims 2 through 4 and 12 is
reversed because the teachings of Van Allen, Taylor and Tsuchida
do not cure the noted shortcoming in the teachings of Cummins and
Ohmura.
In claims 21 through 23, the lenses are not required to be
of “different predetermined focusing powers.” Claim 21 does,
however, call for a light generating means that generates a flash
of light substantially simultaneously with the operation of the
shutter means. The claimed light generating means includes a
light source and concentrator means for concentrating the light
from the light source. The claimed light concentrator in turn
includes a Fresnel reflector disposed on one side of the light
source. Cummins discloses that “[e]ach shutter has a given speed
and is provided with electrical contacts for electronic flash”
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