Appeal No. 2000-1735
Application No. 08/780,930
predetermined period at a back end in the first mode and a second predetermined period
at the front end in the second mode.
Now, it is possible to define the first and second predetermined periods in
Hashimoto so that the first period can be said to be at the back end with the second period
at the front end, as claimed. The problem with such an interpretation, or
arbitrary assignment of labels, is that claim 1 also identifies the first mode as where the
“whole of each line signal outputted from said CCD imager is utilized for displaying an
image” while the second mode is identified as where “only a portion of each line signal
including a front end of each line signal outputted from said CCD imager is utilized for
displaying an image.” Therefore, while the specific terms of “normal” and “quadruplicated,”
or “zoom,” modes are not explicitly recited, it becomes clear that this is exactly what is
meant by the claim language. This is so because it is a “normal” mode which would use
the “whole” of the line signals to display the image while in a “zoom” mode, only a portion of
each line signal would be used for displaying the image because certain portions of the
whole image would not be seen when “zooming” in on a particular other portion of the
image.
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