Appeal No. 2000-0979 Application 08/767,743 12 and 13 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form to include all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims. (Paper 8 at 5). 4. Claims 7 and 9 are objected to due to certain informalities. (Answer at 3). 5. Claims 1-5, 8, 11, 14, 15 and 17 have been rejected as being unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as being anticipated by Inoue et al. (Inoue), U.S. Patent 5,623,303, issued April 22, 1997, based on application 08/394,760, filed February 27, 1995. 6. Claim 16 has been rejected as being unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 103 over Inoue in view of Takagi, U.S. Patent 5,699,144, issued December 16, 1997, based on application 08/434,845, filed May 4, 1995. The invention 7. The disclosed invention pertains to a scanner with a means for converting contents of a film frame into a video signal, means for inserting a scaling signal into the video signal and means for processing the video signal. 8. Independent claim 1 is representative and is as follows: 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007