Appeal No. 95-5109
Application No. 08/063,665
circuit 21. If the newest maximum value in the
memory 19 is decreased, a focusing motor control
circuit 22 inverts the rotational direction of the
focusing motor 3.
Even if we assume for the sake of argument that it would
have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art to use
the peak hold means of Murashima in Kondo, we are still left
with the fact that Kondo does not disclose an averaging means
and uses the two claimed means for determining auto-focus
measurement values in an alternative manner.
With respect to the claimed low-pass filter between the
two means for determining auto-focus measurement values (claim
2), we agree with appellant’s arguments (Brief, pages 18 and
19) that such auto-focus apparatus is neither taught by nor
would have been suggested by Kondo and Murashima. Thus, the
obviousness rejection of claims 1, 2, 6 through 10 and 13 is
reversed.
The obviousness rejection of claims 11 and 12 is reversed
because the auto-focus region teachings of Ueda (column 3,
lines 38 and 39) do not cure the noted shortcomings in the
teachings of Kondo and Murashima.
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