Appeal No. 1997-0837
Application 08/121,116
and an output;
(b) a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, each
corresponding to one of the plurality of neuron MOSFETS;
(c) each neuron MOSFET having its primary input gate coupled
to its corresponding photoelectric conversion element and having
each of its secondary input gates coupled to a different one of
the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements;
(d) a smoothed output;
(e) a first switch coupled to the output of each of the
plurality of neuron MOSFETs for selectively coupling each of the
plurality of neuron MOSFETs to the smoothed output of the image
sensor.
The references relied upon by the examiner as evidence of
obviousness are:
Ingham et al. (Ingham) 3,643,215 Feb. 15, 1972
Holmes et al. (Holmes) 3,944,977 Mar. 16, 1976
Umeda et al. (Umeda) 4,831,658 May 16, 1989
Shibata et al. (Shibata) 5,258,657 Nov. 02, 1993
(filed Jan. 06, 1992)
System Issues in the Implementation of Sensory Neural Network
Photodetector Arrays, Robert B. Darling, et al. (Darling), IEEE
Pacific Rim Conference on Communications; May 9-10, 1991.
Claims 4-8, 10 and 11 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as unpatentable over Darling in view of Shibata and Umeda.
Claims 15-20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
unpatentable over Darling in view of Shibata, Umeda and Holmes.
Claim 9 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable
over Darling in view of Shibata, Umeda and Ingham.
The respective positions of the examiner and the appellant
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