Appeal No. 2000-0979
Application 08/767,743
a video signal with another signal is not the same as
inserting a signal into a video signal. The former changes or
alters the video signal (e.g. increases the gain of the
signal), whereas the latter does not.
Elements 25-30 further process the video signal as
follows:
A correlative double sampling (CDS) circuit 24, an
amplifier 25, a white balance (WB) circuit 26, an analog-to-
digital (A/D) converter unit 27 and ... correction circuit
unit 28 constitute an image signal processing circuit for
applying specified signal processing to the respective color
image signals of R, G, B output from the CCD line sensor 23.
(Inoue, column 13, lines 32-38).
Element 29 stores the processed image data R, G, B from
circuits 24-28. (Inoue, column 15, lines 33-37). Element 30
is a color difference matrix that converts data from memory 29
into a picked up image by further processing and refining the
video data. (Inoue, column 16, lines 26-28). Thus, the
signals that emanate from elements 25-30 affect or change the
video signal and are not signals that are inserted into the
video signal as claimed.
The examiner has failed to provide sufficient evidence to
demonstrate that Inoue teaches inserting a signal into a video
signal as claimed.
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