Appeal No. 1997-4034 Application No. 08/260,269 signal relating to the driving state of the recording means. Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it reads as follows: 1. A video signal recording apparatus for recording a video signal on a recording medium, comprising: memory means for storing said video signal at a time in accordance with a write control signal; synchronizing separating means for separating a synchronizing signal from said video signal; write control signal generating means for generating said write control signal in response to said synchronizing signal; recording means for recording said video signal read out from said memory means on said recording medium; timing signal generating means for generating a timing signal relating to a driving state of said recording means; and read control signal generating means for generating a read control signal used to read said video signal stored in said memory means at a time synchronized with said timing signal. The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are: Shimizu et al. (Shimizu) 4,649,438 Mar. 10, 1987 Yoshioka et al. (Yoshioka) 4,916,553 Apr. 10, 1990 Kanota 5,212,600 May 18, 1993 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007