Appeal No. 96-3640
Application No. 08/184,794
an image sensor having an image area for receiving light to form a first
predetermined number of lines of image data;
a storage area coupled to said image area for receiving a second
predetermined number of lines of image data from said image area in response
to an image area gate signal;
a serial register coupled to said storage area for receiving successive
lines of image data therefrom in response to a storage area gate signal, said
serial register further serially outputting said successive lines of image
data in response to a serial register gate signal;
a vertical adjust signal and a horizontal adjust signal indicative of
the amount of adjustment needed for centering said image; and
a timing controller coupled to said image sensor and said vertical and
horizontal adjust signals, said timing controller generating said image area
gate, storage area gate, serial register gate signals, a plurality of display
timing signals, and determining timing relationships therebetween in response
to said vertical and horizontal adjust signals.
The reference relied upon by the examiner as evidence of obviousness is:
Gage 4,539,590 Sep. 03, 1985
The appealed claims stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Gage.
The respective positions of the examiner and the appellant with
regard to the propriety of the rejection are set forth in the final rejection
(Paper No. 4) and the examiner's answer (Paper No. 12) and the appellant's
brief (Paper No. 11).
Appellant's Invention
As shown in Figure 1, an image centering command input from an
operator is generated by and received from vertical and horizontal adjust
input devices 12 and 14. These devices generate a vertical adjust value and a
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