Appeal No. 1997-4190
Application No. 08/221,721
because a digital memory is present and Hunt digitizes image
data which is then processed and analyzed, pointing to column
3, lines 46-56 of Hunt. Reference to that portion of Hunt
reveals that digital signal processing is done on the
resultant video signal. Thus, the digital processing in Hunt
is performed after the image is achieved and it is performed
on the video signal. But, as set forth in instant claims 1
and 12, the digital image generating means is coupled to the
CCD and it generates the multiple bit digital image signals.
It does not generate a video signal and then digitally process
the video signal as does Hunt. As explained by appellant, at
pages 12-13 of the principal brief, there is no teaching in
Hunt “of the necessity or desirability of incorporating into a
camera such as the Kokubo camera a digital memory upstream of
the video processing analog circuitry.”
Moreover, while, in our view, Hunt is lacking a teaching
or suggestion of certain claimed elements which are also
deficient in Kokubo, even if, arguendo, Hunt taught or
suggested all that the examiner contends, the examiner has not
satisfactorily explained how/why the references would have
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