Appeal No. 2002-0303
Application No. 08/831,872
of the imaged data. For example, at column 10, Nagasaki teaches that the
embodiment in Figure 1, which uses a video movie camera (see column 5, line 52),
may use a storage medium which is not shown. (See column 10, line 22-36.) Nagasaki
states that
In the above-described embodiment [Figure 1], a video movie camera is
exemplified, which continuously picks up images of a target object every
image display period so as to perform image display. Recently, however,
various types of electronic still cameras for picking up still images by using
the solid-state image pickup element 1 have been developed. For
example, while images continuously picked up by a solid-state image
pickup element incorporated in an endoscope are monitored, a given
image is fetched as a still image and is stored in a mass storage of a
digital VTR, a digital video file, or the like.
When the present invention is to be applied to such a digital electronic still
system, an arrangement of, e.g., the second embodiment shown in FIG. 8
may be employed. The same reference numerals in FIG. 8 denote the
same parts as in FIG. 1.
Here, Nagasaki teaches that the mass storage may be a “digital VTR, a digital video
file, or the like,” but does not limit the mass storage device to element 25 in Figure 8.
From the teaching of a mass storage device, such as a digital video tape recorder
(VTR), we find that these storage devices would be digital peripheral devices which
meet the above definition of equipment that is “nonessential to the basic unit, but
working together with the basic unit.” In our view, if the mass storage device were
element 25, the parallel to serial and serial to parallel converters or the
modulator/demodulator would be the point of connection for a VTR or other mass
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