Appeal No. 2003-0408
Application 09/019,965
by the examiner. This amendment cancelled claims 6, 7, 13, 14,
16 and 20-26. Accordingly, this appeal is directed to the
rejection of claims 1-5, 8-12, 15, 17-19, 27 and 29.
The disclosed invention pertains to a method and
apparatus of operating an imaging system in a dual mode of
operation by capturing a still image concurrently with performing
digital video streaming operations of a digital camera tethered
to a computer system.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A method of operating an imaging system in a dual mode
of operation by capturing a still image concurrently with
performance of digital video streaming operations of a digital
camera tethered to a computer system comprising:
pausing digital video streaming operations of the
digital camera;
capturing a still image by the digital camera;
storing the still image as digital still image data in
a memory within the digital camera;
transferring the digital image data from the digital
camera to the computer system;
storing the digital still image data in a first memory
in the computer system and storing digital video streams in a
second memory in the computer system; and
resuming digital video streaming operations of the
digital camera;
wherein the above steps are performed as an atomic
operation which is non-interruptible.
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