Appeal No. 96-3640
Application No. 08/184,794
horizontal adjust signals." The centering processing
in Gage does not manipulate the image area gate signal
or any other signals that control the image area.
Claim 8 includes "... transferring said image data in said
image sensor to a serial register in response to a
first clock signal; ... altering the timing
relationship between said image data
transferring step and said displaying step for centering said
image in the vertical axis in response to said vertical
adjust value...". Claim 14 includes "... transferring a
second predetermined number of consecutive lines of image
data from said image sensor in response to said vertical
adjust signal, said second predetermined number
being less than said first predetermined number, said read
image data composing a vertically shifted and
centered image...". The centering processing in Gage does
not involve controlling the timing of the transfer of
image data from the image sensor. The Gage reference does
not show, teach, or suggest controlling the timing
relationship of the image sensor gate signal or any
other signals which control the image sensor. All
of the centering processing in Gage is done outside the
image sensor.
At pages 3 and 4 of the answer, the examiner's
position
is as follows:
Although exact "gating" signals are not
specified, timing controller 36 (Fig. 6) directly controls
passage of the various signals, including display (Fig. 4),
in an orderly fashion. It would have therefore have
[sic] been readily obvious to the skilled artisan to
either consider the signal timings as being gated, or to
actually include additional elements or steps to
provide appropriate gating. Gage does in fact
include some logic gates for signal passage (e.g. elements
64, 114, 115, 122, 125, 130 etc.), thereby meeting
claim 1.
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