Appeal No. 1998-0740
Application 08/627,838
the final rejection (Paper No. 16) and the examiner’s answer
(Paper No. 20) and the appellant’s brief (Paper No. 19).
Arguments
Appellant argues that none of the references of record
teaches or suggests the subject matter of claim 1 reciting “an
accordion clock signal having a constant number of transitions for
a given period of time and having variable periods for at least
some of the transitions, the increments having variable length are
derived from the accordion clock signal”. Citing column 7, lines
35-48 and column 8, lines 21-31, of Nakajima, appellant further
argues that control circuit 42 does not alter the exposure time in
response to the image data. Lastly, it is urged that there is no
motivation in the art to combine the clock signal of Nagai with
the device of Nakajima.
With respect to appellant’s first argument, the examiner
draws attention to a clock circuit in Fig. 6 of Nagai. The
examiner contends that Nagai’s disclosure with respect to Fig. 6
teaches that the circuit divides a clock signal generated in OSC
71 to generate normal speed transfer decoded signal 83a and high
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