Appeal No. 2006-2848
Application No. 09/999,971
generating these sequences via a user interface of the digital
camera (brief, page 9). Relying on the absence of any explicit
prompts to the user for entering commands in Anderson, Appellants
argue that no assistance is provided to direct generating an
image capture procedure (brief, page 10; reply brief, page 3).
In response, the Examiner relies on the user selection of a
sequence in step 708 in Figure 11 of Anderson (col. 10, lines 50-
56) and argues that once selected, the translation of a sequence
into an executable series of steps can be interpreted as
generating a sequence (answer, pages 11-12). The Examiner
further takes the position that the term Agenerating@ is broad
enough to read on producing commands to perform the image capture
sequence from a stored script (answer, page 12).
After reviewing the claimed subject matter and the applied
reference, we remain unconvinced by the Examiner=s position that
selecting a pre-defined or stored sequence by a user can be
equated to the claimed enabling a user to generate the procedure
via a user interface. Anderson uses procedures that are either
provided as built-in (col. 9, lines 58-61) or externally loaded
into the camera (col. 9, lines 62-67). What the user selects in
Anderson is an already loaded script which is converted into
commands to be executed by the camera (col. 10, lines 50-56).
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