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`APPLICATION NO.
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`FILING DATE
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`FIRST NAMED INVENTOR
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`ATTORNEY DOCK.ET NO.
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`CONFIRMATION NO.
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`09/520,836
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`03/08/2000
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`Takahiro Nakano
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`11/26/2003
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`ANTONELLI, TERRY, STOUT & KRAUS, LLP
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`EXAMINER
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`MOE, AUNG SOE
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`ART UNIT
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`PAPER NUMBER
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`2612
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`DATE MAILED: 11/26/2003
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`Office Action Summary
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`Application No.
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`Applicant(s)
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`09/520,836
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`Examiner
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`NAKANO ET AL.
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`Art Unit
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`2612
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`Status
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`1 )~ Responsive to communication(s) filed on 12 September 2003.
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`2a)O This action is FINAL.
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`2b )['g] This actio~. i_s non-final.
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`3)0 Since this application is in condition for allowance except for. fqp;nal matters, prosecution as to the merits is
`closed in accordance with the practice under Ex parte Quay/e·/1935 C.D. 11, 453 O.G. 213.
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`Disposition of Claims
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`4)['g] Claim(s) 1-6.8.9 and 12-16 is/are pending in the application.
`4a) Of the above claim(s) __ is/are withdrawn from consideration.
`5)0 Claim(s) __ is/are allowed.
`6)['g] Claim(s) 1-6.8 .• 9 and 12-16 is/are r~jected.
`7)0 Claim(s) __ is/are objected to.
`8)0 Claim(s) __ are subject to restriction and/or election requirement.
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`Application Papers
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`9)['g] The specification is objected to by the Examiner.
`10)0 The drawing(s) filed on __ is/are: a)O accepted or b)O objected to by the Examiner.
`Applicant may not request that any objection to the drawing(s) be held in abeyance. See 37 CFR 1.85(a).
`Replacement drawing sheet(s) including the correction is required if the drawing(s) is objected to. See 37 CFR 1.121 (d).
`11 )0 The oath or declaration is objected to by the Examiner. Note the attached Office Action or form PT0-152.
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`Priority under 35 U.S.C. §§ 119 and 120
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`12)['g] Acknowledgment is made of a claim for foreign priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119(a)-(d) or (f).
`a)['g] All b )D Some * c)O None of:
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`2.0 Certified copies of the priority documents have been received in Application No. __ .
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`application from the International Bureau (PCT Rule 17.2(a)).
`*Seethe attached detailed Office action for a list of the certified copies not received.
`13)0 Acknowledgment is made of a claim for domestic priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119(e) (to a provisional application)
`since a specific reference was included in the first sentence of the specification or in an Application Data Sheet.
`37 CFR 1.78.
`a) D The translation of the foreign language provisional application has been received.
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`reference was included in the first sentence of the specification or in an Application Data Sheet. 37 CFR 1. 78.
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`2) 0 Notice of Draftsperson's Patent Drawing Review (PT0-948)
`3) [g) Information Disclosure Statement(s) (PT0-1449) Paper No(s) ~.
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`4) 0 Interview Summary (PT0-413) Paper No(s). __ .
`5) 0 Notice of Informal Patent Application (PT0-152)
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`Office Action Summary
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`Part of Paper No. 6
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`Application/Control Number: 09/520,836
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`DETAILED ACTION
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`Election/Restrictions
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`Applicant's election of Species I of Pigs. 1-6 and claims 1-6, 8-9, and 12-16 as set forth
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`in Paper No. 4 (received on 9/12/2003) is acknowledged. Because applicant did not distinctly
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`and specifically point out the supposed errors in the restriction requirement, the election has been
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`treated as an election without traverse (MPEP § 8 l 8.03(a)).
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`Specification
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`The title of the invention is_ not descriptive. A new title is required that is clearly
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`indicative of the invention to vvhich the claims are directed.
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`Claim Rejections - 35 USC§ 103
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`3.
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`The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 103(a) which fom1s the basis for all
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`obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action:
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`(a) A patent· may not be obtained though the invention is not identically disc)bsed or described as set forth in
`section 102 of this title, if the differences between the subject matter sought'to be patented and the prior art are
`such that the subject matter as a whole would have been obvious at the time the invention was made to a person
`having ordinary skill in the a1i to which said subject matter pertains. Patentability shall not be negatived by the
`manner in which the invention was made.
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`4.
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`This application currently names joint inventors. In considering patentability of the
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`claims under 35 U.S.C. 1?3(a), the examiner presumes that the subject matter of the V'!fio_us._ ..
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`claims was commonly owned at the time any inventio"ns covered therein were made absent any
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`evidence to the contrary. Applicant is advised of the obligation under 37 CFR 1.56 to point out
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`the inventor and invention dates of each claim that was not commonly owned at the time a later
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`invention was made in order for the examiner to consider the applicability of 35 U.S.C. 103(c)
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`and potential 35 U.S.C. 102(e), (f) or (g) prior art under 35 U.S.C. 103(a).
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`5.
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`Claims 1-6, 8-9 andl2 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103(a) as being unpatentable over
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`Noboru (Translation of JP 11-187306) in view of Kijima et al. (EP 0,840,503).
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`Regarding claim 1, Noboru '306 discloses 1, an electric camera (Fig. 1) comprising: an
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`image sensing device (2) with a light receiving surface h.€1Ying N vertically arranged pixels and
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`an arbitrary number of pixels arranged horizontally (i.e., see paragraph 0004 and 0005), N being
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`equal to or more than three times the number of effective sca1U1ing lines M of a display screen of
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`a television system (i.e., noted that the CCD sensor ofNoboru '306 is used in the standard
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`television system which contains the "N" number of pixels more ~h.,¢n or equal to the standard
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`television system such as NTSC; Moreover, it is conventionally well-:known that the number of
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`effective scaiming lines in the filed of the standard television system, e.g., NTSC, is about 240
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`lines; see paragraph 0005);
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`a driver (Fig. 1, the elements 4 and 6) to drive the image sensing device (2) to vertically
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`read-out the signal charges accumulated in individual pix,~J* .. of every pixels to produce a number
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`of lines of output signals which corresponds to the mi:r:µ.per of effective sca1U1ing lines M (i.e., as
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`discussed in paragraph 0019 that the effective pixels read out from the solid state image pickup
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`device 2 is display on the view finder or monitor corresponding to the standard television signal,
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`this implied that the number of lines read out from the sensor 2 must be corresponded to the
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`number of effective scanning lines M of the standard television system; see Figs. 4 and 5); and a
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`signal processing unit (Fig. 1, the element 7) to generate image signals by using the output
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`signals of the image sensing device (2).
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`Furthem1ore, it is noted that although Noboru '306 shows the u_se of a image sensor (2)
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`and a driver ( 4 & 6) for vertically reading out the signals charges accumulated in individual pixel
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`of ever K pixels to produce a number of lines of output signals to display the image on the
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`standard television system (i.e., noted that since the image read out from the sensor 2 is display
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`on the standard television system, the number of lines having K pixels must be corresponded to
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`the number of effective sca1ming liries M of the standard television; see Fig. 5 and the Abstract)
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`as discussed above, Noboru '306 does not explicitly state that the signal charges accumulated in
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`individual pixels of every K pixels are vertically mixed or culled to produce a number of lines of
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`output signals wherein K being at lest one of integers equal to o~. l~ss than an integral part of a
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`quotient of N divided by M as recited in present claimed invention.·.·\"/
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`However, the above-mentioned claimed limitations are well known in the art as
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`evidenced by Kijima '503. In particular, Kijima '503 teaches the use of a solid-state image
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`pickup element such as CCD (Fig. 1, the element 12) with the effective pixel more than the
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`number of pixels corresponding to a standard TV signal (i.e., as discussed in col. 3 lines 35+ that
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`the CCD 12 of Kijima '503 having 1, 000,000 or more pix-~ls which is clearly more than the
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`number of pixels corresponding to a standard TV system) and the respective pixels from a
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`number of lines are read out in conventional interlaced scaiming method to provide the
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`motion/dynamic picture image data (see col. 1, lines 20+).
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`Furthem1ore, Kijima '503 teaches that in order to realized the high speed image reading
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`mode, it is desirable to drive the image sensing device (12) to vertically mix or cull signal
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`charges accumulated in individual pixels of every K pixels to produce a number of lines of
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`output signals (i.e., noted from Figs. 6-7 and 9-10 and col. 11, lines 30+, col. 12, lines 30+ and
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`col. 15, lines 20+) which corresponds to the number of effective scanning lines M (i.e., noted
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`that the number of "n" lines are reac;ling out at 20 MHz rate, frames containing two interleaved
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`fields can be produced at the NTSC standard rate of 30 per second, thus, the number of "n" lines
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`read out fonn the sensor 12 must be correspond to the effective scanning lines of the NTSC
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`standard; see col. 1, lines 30-35, col. 4, lines 15_-25, and col. 18, lines 45-50), K being at least one
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`of integers equal to or less than an integral part of a quotient of N divided by M (i.e., this case
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`noted that the sensor 12 contains abut 1000 pixel in the vertic_~l direction and the effective
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`scanning lines for the conventional TV system, e.g., NTSC, is about 240, thus, a quotient of 1000
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`-divided by 240 is about 4.2. As shown in Figs. 6 and 9 of Kijima '503, that the pixel signals for
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`two or three lines continued in the vertical direction may be added and read, in view of this, it is
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`cleared ~hat the value for "K" is equal to or less than a quotient of 1 oocr{iivided by 240; see col.
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`8, lines 20+ and col. 12, lines 24+ ).
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`In view of the above, having the system ofNoboru '306 and then given the well(cid:173)
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`established teaching of Kijima '503, it would have been obvious to one having ordinary skill in
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`the art at the time the invention was made to modify the system ofNoboru '306 as taught by
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`Kijima '503 in order to realized a high speed dynamic.imagirrg"'rnode as suggested by Kijima '503
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`(i.e., see col. 1, lines 55+). Moreover, Kijima '503 states at col. 18, lines 35+ that such a
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`modification would increase the data reading rate to efficiently and quickly obtain a fine focused
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`image at an optimal shutter release opportunity.
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`Regarding claim 2, the combination ofNoboru '306 and Kijima '503 discloses an electric
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`camera according to claim 1, wherein the driver drives the image sensing device to read out or
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`discard the signal charges of a pixel area corresponding to N-K .M pixels during a vertical
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`blanking period of the television system (i.e., noted from the paragraph 0006 ofNoboru '306 that
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`only the number of pixels corresponding to the standard television signal is read out from the
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`CCD sensor having an effective pixel more than the number of pixels corresponding to the
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`standard television. In view of this, it is obvious that only the effective scanning lines
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`coITesponding to the standard TV are read out fromJJ;ie CCD sensor during the vertical blanking
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`period as shown in Fig. 4 of Noboru '306) to extract the signal charges of a pixel area
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`coITesponding to (K x M) pixels from the N vertically arra11ged pixels of the image sensing
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`device during a vertical effective scanning period of the television system and thereby obtain a
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`number of lines of output signals which corresponds to the number of effective scanning lines M,
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`N-K. M being the N vertically arranged pixels of the image-sensing device minus a product (K x
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`M) of the number of pixels to be cyclically mixed or culled Kand the number of effective
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`scanning li1:1es M (i.e., noted from the teaching ofKijima '503 that the number of "q" pixels read
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`out by adding the "q" pixels from "n" lines are less than the total pixel sensor form "m" lines,
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`and they are obviously corresponding to the conv.enti_pnal standard TV system for displaying the
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`motion images by interleaving the odd and even files of image signals; see col. 1, lines 25+ and
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`col. 15, lines 25+).
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`Regarding claim 3, the combination of Noboru '306 and Kijirna '503 discloses an electric
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`camera according to claim 1, wherein the signal-processing unit has a function of:
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`extracting an output signal period conesponding to that horizontal segment which
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`virtually matches an aspect ratio of the television system with respect to a vertical height of the
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`extracted pixels in the light receiving surface of the image-sensing device, and outputting the
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`signals of the extracted horizontal segn1ent over the entire horizontal effective scam1ing period of
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`the television system (i.e., see Figs. 5; paragr~ph 0012, 0016, 0017-0018 and Figs. 4-5 ofNoboru
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`'306).
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`Regarding claim 4, the combination ofNoboru '306 and Kijima '503 discloses an electric
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`camera according to claim 1, wherein the driver drives the image sensing device to shift, in each
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`display cycle of the television system (Fig. 4-5; paragraph 00.J,2, 0016, 0017-0018 and Figs. 4-5
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`ofNoboru '306), positions of the pixels to be cyclically mixed or culled and thereby output
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`interlaced signals (noted the teaching of Kijima '503 as shown in Figs. 6 and 9; col. 1, lines 25+
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`and col. 11, lines 30+ and col. 12, lines 25+ of Kijima '503).
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`Regarding claim 5, the combination of Noboru '306 and Kijima '503 discloses an electric
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`camera according to claim 4, wherein the signal processing unit has a function of interpolating
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`vertical positions of gravity centers of the interlaced ouib~t signals obtained by the mixing or
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`culling so that a phase difference between the gravity centers on two interlaced fields is ·180
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`degrees (i.e., noted that Noboru '306 discloses the use of angular-velocity sensor Sa and Sb for
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`interpolating vertical position of gravity center of the interlaced output signals from the sensor 2
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`so that a phase difference between the gravity center on two interlaced fields is 180 degrees as
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`discussed in the paragraph 0013+; and Kijima '~Q}teaches the mixing or culling of the output
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`signals to obtain the interlace signals for generating the high speed motion images thereof; see
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`Figs. 6 and 9, col. 11, lines 30+ and col. 12, lines 25+ ).
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`Regarding claim 6, the combination of Noboru '306 and Kijima '503 discloses an electric
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`camera according to claim 1, wherein the image sensing device can vertically mix or cull those
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`numbers of pixels which are at least two of integers equal to or less than an integral part of a
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`quotient of the number of vertically arranged pixel rows N divided by the number of effective
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`scaiming lines M (i.e., see Figs. 6 and 9; col. 11, lines 30+ and col. 12, lines 25+ of Kijima '503),
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`and the driver drives the image sensing device in at leastA\:vo modes corresponding to the at least
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`two integers (i.e., noted the use of multiple modes in the camera system of Kijima '503 by
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`selectively m·ixing or culling those number of pixels from the CCD sensor 12 as shown in Figs. 6
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`and 9; see col. 7, lines 25+, col. 8,.lines 26+ anri col. 12, lines 29+ of Kijima '503).
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`Regarding claim 8, the combination of Noboru '306 and Kijima '503 discloses an electric
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`camera according to claim 6, further including a gai.n adjust unit for adjusting a gain of the
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`output signals of the image sensing device (i.e., nofect'the Gain adjusting circuits 3, 4 and 6 as
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`shown in Fig. 1 ofNoboru '306; and noted the elements 14, 16, 20, 22 and 24 of Kijima '503),
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`wherein, when the number of pixels to be cyclically mixed changes, a gain of the gain adjust unit
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`is changed ~ccording to the number of pixels to be cyclically mixed qg _the image sensing device
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`(i.e., noted the teaching of Kijima '503 for mixing the pixel signals ai; shown in Fig. 6 and 9) so
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`that ari output signal level of the gain adjust unit remains constant (i.e., noted from Figs. 1 of
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`Noboru '306 and Kijima '503 that the signals output form the CCD sensor are respe.ctively
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`adjusted by using the gain adjusting circuit so that the output signals would remain constant).
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`Regarding claim 9, the combination of Noboru '3.06 and Kijima '503 discloses an electric
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`camera according to claim 1, further including an image un-stability detector (Fig. 1, the
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`elements 5a and Sb) for detecting an image un-stability of the electric camera, wherein a vertical
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`height and horizontal width size and a position of an area to be extracted from the light receiving
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`surface is changed according to an amount of image un-stability detected by the un-stability
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`detector to correct the image un-stability (i.e., Paragraph 0013+ ofNoboru '306).
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`Regarding claim12, the combination ofNoboru '306 and Kijima '503 discloses an electric
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`camera according to claim 1, fmiher including a trigger device (Fig. 1, the element 6 ofNoboru
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`'306) such as a shutter button (Fig. 1, the elements 46 ofKijima '503), wherein, when a trigger is
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`produced by the trigger device, the signal charges accumulated in individual pixels of the image
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`sensing device are not cyclically mixed but are read out independently for all pixels (i.e., see
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`Figs. 6 and 9 ofKijima '503).
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`6.
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`Claims 13-16 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103(a) as being unpatentable over Noboru
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`'306 in view ofKijima '503 as applied to claims discussed above, and further in view of Fujimoto
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`(U.S. 4,434,435).
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`Regarding claim 13, the combination ofNoboru '306 and Kijima '503 discloses an
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`electric camera a'ccording to claim 1 as discussed above, wherein color mters that pass first,
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`second and third colors respectively are arranged to cyclically appear h6;izontally at three-pixel
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`intervals (i.e., noted the use of color signals processing as discussed in paragraph 0011 of
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`Noboru '306; and see Figs. 2, 10 and 11 of Kijirria-,'503 ).
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`Fmihem1ore, it is noted that the combination of Noboru '306 and Kijima '503 does not
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`explicitly show wherein the color filters that pass the saif.~ colors are arranged vertically as
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`recited in the present claimed invention.
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`However,_ the above-mentioned claimed limitations are well known in the art as
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`evidenced by Fujimoto '435. In particular, Fujimoto '435 teaches the use of color filters that pass
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`the same colors, which are ananged vertically as recited in the present claimed invention (Figs.
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`1, 4 and 13 of Fujimoto '435).
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`In view of the above, having the system of Noboru '306 and then given the well(cid:173)
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`established teaching of Fujimoto '435, it would have been obvious to one having ordinary skill in
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`the art at the time the invention was made to modify the system of Noboru '306 as taught by
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`Fujimoto '435 in order to provide a i1ovel improved apparatus wherein rather simple stripe filter
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`is used in combination with a mosaic pattern solid state image sensor, thereby an improved
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`manufacturing productivity and yield are attainable as suggested by Fujimoto '435 (i.e., see col.
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`4, lines 50+ ).
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`Regarding claims 14 and 15, the combination p.f<Noboru '306, Kijima '503 and Fujimoto
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`'435 show the use of the first, second and third color stripe filters on the mosaic-disposed pfoture
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`elements on a solid state image sensor (i.e., see Figs. 1~ 4 and 13 of Fujimoto '435) of an electric
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`camera according to claim 13. Furthermore, it is noted that althoqgh the proposed combination
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`ofNoboru '306, Kijima '503 and Fujimoto '435 show the use of w~1ll known color filter
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`combination of different color stripe filters having the s~Qplbination of yellow,· green, white and
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`cyan on a solid state image sensor as discussed above, t~-~ ·combination of Noboru '306, Kijima
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`'503 and Kijima '503 does not explicitly show the use'tf~~ell-known combination of color filters
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`such that the combination of either yellow, green and cyan or the combination of yellow, white
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`and cyan respectively.
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`However, since Fujimoto '435 teaches the use of combination of well known color stripe
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`filters having specific color filters such that yellow, green, white and cyan on a solid state image
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`sensor as shown in Figs. 4 and 13 (i.e., see col. 6, lines 40+ and col. 19, lines 4+), thus, having
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`the system ofNoboru '306 and then given the well-established teaching of Fujimoto '435, it
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`would have been obvious to one having ordinary"skill in the art at the time the invention was
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`made to use any combination of strip filters (i.e., combination of Ye, G & Cy or Ye, W & Cy)
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`for the purpose of achieving the different desired resolution thereof.
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`Regarding claim 16, the combination ofNoboru '306, Kijima '503 and Fujimoto '435
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`teaches an electric camera accordil).g to claim 13, wherein the first, second and third colors are
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`red, green and blue, respectively (i.e., noted the color filters as shown in Fig. l _of Fujimoto '435).
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`The prior aii made ofrecord and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's
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`Conclusion
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`disclosure.
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`a.
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`Chang '939 shows an imaging apparatus having CCD image sensor and selectively
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`reading out the specific amount of pixel from the plurality of pixels from the CCD sensor.
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`G US-2001 /0043276
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`UENO, HIROYUKI
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`lshigami et al.
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`Ishibashi, Norio
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`09-1995
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`Matoba et al.
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`L US-5,264,939 A
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