The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 25
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte TONIA G. MORRIS, KEVIN M. CONNOLLY, and LAWRENCE A. BOOTH, JR.
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Appeal No. 2005-0439
Application No. 09/106,994
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ON BRIEF
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Before KRASS, BARRETT, and BARRY, Administrative Patent Judges.
BARRY, Administrative Patent Judge.
A patent examiner rejected claims 1, 3-6, 8-10, and 18-28. The appellants
appeal therefrom under 35 U.S.C. § 134(a). We affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
The invention at issue on appeal concerns an "imager." (Spec. at 1.) According
to the appellants, a typical digital camera uses an imager to capture an optical image.
For its part, the imager includes an array of photosensitive sensors. Each sensor
measures the intensity of a portion, viz., a "pixel," of a representation of an image
focused onto the array, (id.), and indicates an intensity of light of the pixel via an analog
signal. The camera processes the indications from the sensors to form a frame of
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