Appeal No. 96-3994
Application 08/260,485
the examiner's views that these decision means clauses are
within the four corners of the reference. On the basis of our
own study, we understand the teachings at the same portions
noted at the top of page 7 of the brief on appeal in Maruyama
as indicating that, when the focal length of the lense
changes, the full open aperture size or diameter of the
shutter blades is also changed. Maruyama's invention
discloses an approach where the aperture size varies as the
focal length varies.
Separately, we also agree with appellants' views with
respect to the different language recited in independent claim
4 on appeal than the common language recited between that
claim and claim 1 on appeal. In claim 4 the first decision
means determines a program line from a plurality of program
lines which have different full-aperture [sic, full open-
aperture] diameters, respectively. This language and the
subsequent language in the second decision means clause relate
to the operation of the appellants' disclosed camera in the
context of the showings in Figures 3 and 6, for example. We
do not agree with the examiner's view that the showing in
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