Appeal No. 2004-0262
Application No. 09/139,711
stored charges are transformed to a transmission part in response
to a transmission pulse (answer, page 6).
A rejection for anticipation under section 102 requires that
the four corners of a single prior art document describe every
element of the claimed invention, either expressly or inherently,
such that a person of ordinary skill in the art could practice
the invention without undue experimentation. See Atlas Powder
Co. v. Ireco Inc., 190 F.3d 1342, 1347, 51 USPQ2d 1943, 1947
(Fed. Cir. 1999); In re Paulsen, 30 F.3d 1475, 1478-79, 31 USPQ2d
1671, 1673 (Fed. Cir. 1994).
After a review of Suzuki, we agree with Appellant’s
assertion that the claimed clock signal to be applied to the one-
dimensional image sensor is different from the charging period or
the rotating speed of the scanning mirror. Suzuki in col. 25,
lines 19-24 states:
In the photometering process, a charging period of the image
sensor 16 for each line during image capturing is selected
based on the maximum brightness at which pixels will not be
saturated. The rotating speed of the scanning motor 70 is
then determined to correspond to the charging period.
Therefore, although the rotating speed of the scanning motor is
determined based on the desired charging period, it is the
rotation of the motor that rotates the mirror and actually causes
the image sensor to capture the image for that charging period.
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