Appeal No. 2001-2697
Application No. 08/770,048 Page 9
We turn next to the examiner's assertion that McDonald's
disclosure of using a low resolution image for displaying and
composition correction, and Zelten's disclosure of using a low
resolution image for displaying and image enhancing, is
motivation to combine the teachings of McDonald and Zelten. We
agree with the examiner that both McDonald and Zelten use a low
resolution image during an editing process. However, we find
that McDonald is directed to integrating edited text material
with given color images (col. 2, lines 33 and 34). Once the
color image or images are stored in the copy center's
telecommunications processor (XTP), the customer generates on his
computer the text material to be incorporated with the color
image (col. 3, lines 26-30), as a page layout of a document to be
printed (col. 3, lines 37 and 38). In contrast, Zelten is
directed to a scanner where the user changes color density, tone
scale, sharpness, as well as hue and saturation adjustments (col.
4, lines 3-11). After processing the final scan of the corrected
image, the user can include the image in an electronic document
(col.7, lines 12 and 13). Because McDonald is directed to
creating a page layout of a document and Zelten is directed to a
scanner which corrects an image that may then be used in an
electronic document, we find that if the teachings of McDonald
and Zelten were combined in a manner as suggested by the
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