Appeal No. 2004-1134
Application No. 09/928,204
OPINION
We affirm the rejection of claims 1 and 2 and reverse the
rejections of claims 3-6.
Claims 1 and 2
Suzuki discloses prior art and inventive color picture
cameras having an imaging unit that can be a charge coupled
device (CCD) and outputs red, blue and green signals (col. 1,
lines 14-26; col. 4, lines 5-18). An amplifier circuit has a
first amplifier (104; 404R) in a first channel for white balance
of the red signal, a second amplifier (104B; 404B) in a second
channel for white balance of the blue signal, a third, separate
channel for the green signal, and a signal processor (105; 405)
for adjustment of gain (col. 1, lines 26-37; col. 4, lines 18-33;
figures 1 and 3).
The appellant argues that Suzuki does not disclose a
parallel/serial converter (brief, page 5). The appellant
discloses that the parallel/serial converter is a shift register
(specification, page 4, lines 2 and 7). The examiner finds that
CCDs inherently have vertical shift registers which shift their
contents in parallel into a horizontal shift register that shifts
out its charges serially and, therefore, corresponds to the
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