Appeal No. 97-2582
Application 08/484,353
means for recording said image data in said
memory in response to said push button being in said second
operating position;
means for reproducing and displaying said image
data recorded in said memory on said display means in response
to said push button being in said first operating position.
Opinion
We reverse.
A reversal of the rejections on appeal should not be
construed as an affirmative indication that the appellants’
claims are patentable over prior art. We address only the
positions and rationale as set forth by the examiner and on
which the examiner’s rejection of the claims on appeal is
based.
All independent claims require at least two operative
positions of a single push-button switch, one of which causes
the recording of image data into a memory means and the other
of which causes reproduction of the recorded image data.
Claim 17 requires a third operative position of the push-
button which simply displays the formed image data as a
picture on a display means.
In its first disclosed embodiment, Kinoshita discloses a
switch 15 which when depressed freezes a current image on
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