Appeal No. 1997-4190
Application No. 08/221,721
argues that Hunt has a digital image generating means which is
coupled to the CCD for generating multiple bit digital image
signals
"since signals from the CCD are able to be digitized
by the digital image generating means. Furthermore,
a memory for storing the digital signal is clearly
present in Hunt...since the digitized image is
subjected to ‘digital signal processing’(Column 3,
Line 48-49), an operation clearly requiring that the
digitized image data be stored in some fashion in
order
for it to be made available for the subsequent
digital processing operation" [Principal answer-page
6].
Nagasaki is employed by the examiner for the teaching of
incorporating into a photographing unit a digitizing means and
an individual memory means for storing a full-frame multi-bit
digital image because Hunt’s digitizing and memory elements
are housed in a separate enclosure and therefore not part of
the photographing unit itself.
We find that the examiner has not established a prima
facie case of obviousness with regard to the instant claimed
subject matter and, so, we will not sustain any of the
outstanding rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
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