Appeal No. 1998-2540
Application No. 08/214,707
recorded on a recording medium along with the image
information. Specifically, appellants argue that the
information on the film in Wash relates to controlling the
photofinishing when developing and printing takes place which
is completely different from the content information recorded
in Takeuchi. Appellants also argue that there is no
suggestion to combine the teachings of Takeuchi and Wash
within the cited references, and that the examiner has used
improper hindsight to justify the proposed rejection.
We agree with appellants. The coded information which
accompanies the image in Wash relates to the automatic control
of the photodeveloping process. The claimed invention is
directed to a system which can both sense the photographed
image on a film and read photographic information on the film
and storing these two sources of information together on a
recording medium. We agree with appellants that the coded
film of Wash would not have suggested to the artisan that the
system of Takeuchi be modified to read information from the
film associated with the image for concurrent storage. The
proposed modification of Takeuchi would require not only that
the Takeuchi device be capable of handling a special type of
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