The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not
written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 18
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte KIMBLE DONG
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Appeal No. 2004-1487
Application No. 09/085,519
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ON BRIEF
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Before HAIRSTON, BARRETT, and FLEMING, Administrative Patent
Judges.
FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 1-24, all the claims pending in the instant application.
Invention
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for
reading out image signals from a CMOS image sensor. It is
desirable in image sensors to remove fixed pattern noise from the
signals that are processed from the pixels. See page 1 of
Appellant's specification. A CMOS image sensor and readout
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