Appeal No. 2002-1137
Application No. 08/761,854
correlates the claim 19 “input/output means for receiving new image data from an
external source” with card I/F 109 (Fig. 140) of Kuba, which is connected to external
memory card 116. The rejection goes on to state that the Kuba camera generates a
unique image name for the image data from an external source, and if a conflict exists
with a “stored image name,” the camera changes the imported image name to a new
image name.
Kuba does not describe the operations attributed to it by the rejection. In
particular, in the sections of the reference upon which the rejection relies, Kuba
describes generating a name for a captured image, and changing that name if the
name conflicts with a previously stored name, rather than changing the name of an
image file that is received from an external source. As shown in the block diagram of
Figure 140 (described at col. 49, ll. 29-60), an object image is acquired by means of
image pick-up electronics 102, compressed, and named, prior to storage in memory
card 116. As we have described previously herein, the data file name for the captured
image is adjusted as necessary, as opposed to generating a new name for the image
file from an external source. Although pre-existing image files in memory card 116 may
fairly be regarded as image data from an external source, those file names are not
changed, but instead are the basis for determining whether the file names for
subsequently captured images should be adjusted.
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