Appeal No. 1999-0864 Page 17
Application No. 08/757,550
detected by said circumstance detector.” Therefore, we
reverse the rejection of claims 12-14 as obvious over Yamanaka
in view of Sawachika. We proceed to claims 6, 18, 27, 28, 32,
and 34.
C. Claims 6, 18, 27, 28, 32, and 34
The examiner alleges, “Yamanaka's lighting controller is
capable of detecting a sound volume or a sound associated with
the main image of the display device considering that a movie
inherently contains video and audio data.” (Examiner’s
Answer, ¶ 11.) The appellant argues, “[n]either Yamanaka nor
Sawachika remotely teach or suggest a volume of sound or sound
as a detected condition.” (Appeal Br. at 13.)
Claim 6 specifies in pertinent part the following
limitations: "a condition detected by the circumstance
detector is a volume of sound or sound around a user ...."
Similarly, claim 18 specifies in pertinent part the following
limitations: "the environmental image-changing means varies a
color-tone of the environmental image according to the
detected sound volume or sound.” Also similarly, claims 27
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