Appeal No. 97-0903
Application No. 08/266,865
said film, and time information, representing a time of
exposure of the frame of said film, and exposing the
information displayed thereon to a frame of said film when
exposing the subject to said frame of said film through said
subject exposure means; and
print information set means, provided on said camera
body and operable from outside of said camera body, for (a)
causing said light-emitting display module to display, as
panoramic print information, a specific code including
alphabetical characters when said print information set means
is operated so that at least one of said first pair of light-
emitting elements displays at least one of said alphabetical
characters, (b) allowing said light-emitting display module to
display numerals as the information displayed thereon, and (c)
exposing said print information on at least one of the
portions of said frame so that said print information appears
as a visible image on said frame when said film is developed
and is optically read by the photographic printer.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Hattori 4,330,186 May 18, 1982
Lapeyre 4,705,372 Nov. 10, 1987
Taniguchi et al. 4,862,201 Aug. 29, 1989
(Taniguchi ’201)
Itabashi 5,003,329 Mar. 26, 1991
Hata et al. (Hata) 5,057,857 Oct. 15, 1991
Taniguchi et al. 5,060,006 Oct. 22, 1991
(Taniguchi ’006)
Claims 1-3 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103. As
evidence of obviousness the examiner offers Taniguchi ’201 in
combination with Hattori, Lapeyre, Itabashi, Hata and
Taniguchi ’006.
Rather than repeat the arguments of appellants or the
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