Appeal No. 1997-4190
Application No. 08/221,721
generator means generates video timing signals. While there
appears to be an external reset signal in Hunt, the examiner
has not persuaded us that this external reset signal resets
both the timing means and a sync generator means, as claimed.
In fact, the examiner leaves it unclear as to why it is
believed that the MNPPG of Hunt provides the claimed sync
generator means.
The examiner also apparently relies on mode select, 94,
of Hunt for providing the claimed “means for selecting an
internal reset mode and an external reset mode of operation
for said timing means and said sync generator means.” Yet, it
is not clear, from either the disclosure of Hunt or the
examiner’s rationale, why Hunt’s mode select, 94, is thought
to have the claimed capability.
Independent claims 1 and 12 also require a “digital
image generating means coupled to said CCD for generating
multiple bit digital image signals.” We agree with appellant
that neither Kokubo nor Hunt appears to disclose or suggest
such a generating means. The examiner agrees that Kokubo
fails to teach this limitation but contends that Hunt, while
not explicit, must have such a digital image generating means
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