Appeal No. 97-0903
Application No. 08/266,865
the film frame. The Hattori data is alphanumeric and provides
information about the picture useful to the user. The Lapeyre
data is similar in this respect. Hata teaches the use of a
light-emitting diode to expose a portion of a film frame to
include various kinds of information that might be useful to
the user. Thus, each of these three references is directed to
exposing human-readable information onto an exposed film
frame. None of the three references teaches or suggests that
the information recorded on the film is machine readable so
that anything can be controlled as a result of the
information.
When the collective teachings of these six references
are considered, the artisan is informed that human-readable
codes can be exposed onto the film frame to provide
information useful to the user, and machine-readable panoramic
codes can be placed outside the exposed area of the film frame
to control printing of the exposed film. Claim 1 recites that
the machine-readable panoramic information is exposed onto a
portion of the film which is visible on the developed film.
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