Appeal No. 1999-2019
Application No. 08/646,810
a storage operable to store an image signal;
a writing device which is operable to write an image signal in the storage;
a reading device which is operable to read an image signal from the
storage;
a discriminator which discriminates whether a relative movement is
executed between the object and the image pickup device; and
a controller which controls at least one of the writing and reading devices to
perform at least one of writing and reading of image signal during a relative
movement, wherein the image pickup device is exposed after a relative movement
is completed.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Kojima 5,402,252 Mar. 28, 1995
Karasawa 4-28187 May 13, 1992
(Japanese Examined Patent Publication)1
Claims 1-11 and 13-44 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Karasawa and Kojima.
Claims 45-48 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102 as being anticipated by
Karasawa.
We refer to the Final Rejection (Paper No. 7) and the Examiner's Answer (Paper
No. 14) for a statement of the examiner's position and to the Brief (Paper No. 13) and the
The file contains a 5-page partial English translation, apparently provided by appellants with the1
Information Disclosure Statement filed August 6, 1996 (Paper No. 3), although counsel for appellants was
unable to confirm such at the oral hearing. We have obtained a complete translation of the document (on
which we rely) from the USPTO translation branch (translation dated June, 1999) and are enclosing a copy
with this decision.
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