Appeal No. 97-2582
Application 08/484,353
reproduced.”
A second embodiment is disclosed in Kinoshita, which
involves the use of a switch 30. In column 5, lines 28-37, it
is stated:
A switch 30 controls the start of a
recording/reproduction amplifier 22. The switch 30
is used to determine whether an image in a frame
memory 7 of the image pickup section 1 is recorded
on a disk 23. When the switch 30 is lightly
depressed, a current image is not recorded on the
disk 23 but a next image in the frame memory 7 is
transferred. When the switch 30 is strongly
depressed, a current image on the frame memory 7 is
transferred, and both the frame memory 7 and a
recording disk 20 can record a new image.
It appears that although the amplifier 22 can be used for
either recording or reproduction, switch 30 only activates the
recording function of amplifier 22. To the extent that
amplifier 22 can be activated to reproduce information from
the disk 23, Kinoshita is silent as to what activates that
aspect of amplifier 22, similar to the case with the first
disclosed embodiment.
For the foregoing reasons, whether the second embodiment
is implemented on top of the first embodiment, consistent with
the examiner’s position, or is separate and independent of the
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