Appeal No. 1998-1905
Application No. 08/362,725
BACKGROUND
The invention is directed to an electronic color infrared camera. Claim 1 is
reproduced below.
1. An infrared digital electronic camera comprising:
a. a solid state color image sensor having an array of image sensing
elements and an array of color filter elements arranged over said image sensing
elements for producing a color image signal, said color filter elements including
infrared color filter elements that block blue light and pass infrared light; and
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b. a signal processing circuit for processing said color image signals from
said image sensor to produce a false color image signal.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Dillon et al. (Dillon) 4,016,597 Apr. 5, 1977
Rantasuo et al. (Rantasuo) 5,557,326 Sep. 17,1996
(effective filing date Jul. 18, 1994)
Claims 1-13 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Dillon and Rantasuo.
We refer to the Final Rejection (Paper No. 8) and the Examiner's Answer (Paper
No. 10) for a statement of the examiner's position and to the Appeal Brief (Paper No. 9) for
appellants’ position with respect to the claims which stand rejected.
1We note an apparent informality: a lack of proper antecedent in the claim for “said color image
signals.” The recitation should be amended to recite a singular --signal--.
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