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                Appeal 2007-1275                                                                              
                Application 09/824,248                                                                        

                                       STATEMENT OF THE CASE                                                  
                      Appellant's invention relates to an electronic still camera that                        
                processes images which were obtained in a continual photographing                             
                operation so as to reproduce and display the images in the same order and at                  
                the same time interval as they were recorded.  (Specification 1:5-9;                          
                Abstract.)                                                                                    

                      Claim 9 is exemplary:                                                                   
                             9.  An electronic still camera comprising:                                       
                                   a memory that stores a discrete image                                      
                             obtained in a still photographing operation, and                                 
                             that stores, for each of a plurality of discrete                                 
                             images sequentially obtained in a continual still                                
                             image photographing operation in which the                                       
                             plurality of discrete images are taken at an interval                            
                             time set by an operator, a unique indicator that                                 
                             indicates whether said discrete image was                                        
                             sequentially recorded in the continual still image                               
                             photographing operation;                                                         
                                   a determination processor that determines                                  
                             whether the plurality of discrete images were                                    
                             obtained in said continual still image                                           
                             photographing operation; and                                                     
                                   an image processor that continually                                        
                             reproduces said plurality of discrete images, as a                               
                             common operation on said plurality of discrete                                   
                             images, at a same interval as that of said continual                             
                             still image photographing operation, when it is                                  
                             determined, using said unique indicator, that said                               
                             plurality of discrete images were obtained in said                               
                             continual still image photographing operation.                                   

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