Free Order - District Court of Delaware - Delaware

Case 1:04-cv—01373-KAJ Document 473 Filed 10/26/2006 Page 1 of 2
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELAWARE
AMPEX CORPORATION, )
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Plaintiff, )
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v. ) Civil Action No. 04-1373-KAJ
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EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY, ALTEK )
CORPORATION, and CHINON )
INDUSTRIES, INC., )
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Defendants. )
ORDER
For the reasons set forth in the Memorandum Opinion issued today, IT IS
HEREBY ORDERED that the following disputed claim terms of U.S Patent No.
4,821,121 (issued April 11, 1989) are construed as follows:
Claim Term The Court’s Construction
"video image" "an electronic signal representation of
visual information displayable in visual
form on a monitor or other display
device."
"video still store" "a system capable of storing still video
images."
"video data"; "video pixel data"; "data "numerical information representing the
set"; "image data set" luminance, red chrominance, and blue
chrominance components of each pixel
in a video image."
"the video data"; "the video pixel data"; "numerical information representing the
"said video pixel data"; "the data sets"; same luminance, red chrominance, and
"said image data sets" blue chrominance components of each
pixel in a video image."

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"direct"; "directIy" "the transfer of data without intervening
processing."
"an input port and an output port" "an input port and a separate output
port."
"external source" "a source located outside of and
physically separate from the image
store, memory, size reducer means, and
means for displaying the output image."
"responsive to" "performs its function automatically
under the control of."
"selectively generating" "to choose whether to generate."
"selective transfer" "to choose whether to transfer."
order of steps (claims 11, 13, and 15) Claims 11, 13, and 15 require the
generation of a reduced size copy prior
to storage of a full size image in the
memory. The other claims at issue do
not require an order of operation.
"corresponding" "a relationship is maintained between
each full size image and the reduced
size image generated from that full size
image."
size reducertransfers and receives data Claims 7, 8, and 10 do not require that
only from RAM (claims 7, 8, and 10) the size reducertransfer and receive
data only from RAM.
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