Appeal No. 1998-1389 Page 17
Application No. 08/553232
modification of an image component or the entire image.
Input/output system 23 retrieves the final image rendition,
translates the data and associated image attributes into
display data, and transmits the output to the selected output
device.
In view of the teachings of Smith that the image
subsystem utility permits the user to modify image color,
density, scaling, etc., we do not agree with appellants
(brief, page 11) that Smith "does not teach editing,
constructing or manipulating images in any way."
Additionally, from the teachings of Smith that the invention
relates to creating multicomponent documents, and includes an
image subsystem utility, we find that the document management
system of Smith is analogous art. However, from our review of
Brotsky and Smith, we agree with appellants (brief, pages 6,
7, and 10) that the combined teachings of Brotsky and Smith
would not have suggested the claimed combination, in the
absence of appellants' disclosure. We find that because
Brotsky uses an "erector set" view of images, and specifies
all of the source and transform nodes, with associated
attributes, in the Graph View window, we find no reason, and
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