Appeal No. 2003-1992
Application No. 09/075,777
page 7 of Appellants' specification. Referring to Figure 2, the
top view shows a camera head 201 that holds the lens assembly 211
and houses the image sensor module and associated electronics, a
laptop type computer 203, and a rigid mounting frame 202 that
holds the camera head 201 and computer 203 as a unified camera
assembly. See page 9 of Appellants' specification. A standard
camera tripod mount 210 is included in bottom plate 207 for
connecting a tripod to camera 200. See page 11 of Appellants'
specification. Figure 3 is a system block diagram of camera 200
and is shown to include camera head 201 with attached lens 211
and laptop computer 203. The camera elements controllable by
computer 203 include: lens assembly 211 for focus, aperture, and
zoom control; image sensor module 312 for initialization;
exposure, and resolution control; ADC 312 for quantization of
pixel data; image buffer 314 for image storage and retrieval.
See pages 11 and 12 of Appellants' specification.
Appellants' independent claim 1 is representative of the
claimed invention and is reproduced as follows:
1. An electronic view camera apparatus comprising:
a laptop type computer having a display screen, a manual
input device, a random access memory, a storage subsystem, and
input and output connectors;
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