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               The opinion in support of the decision being entered                   
                    today was not written for publication and is                      
                         not binding precedent of the Board                           

                                                       Paper No. 26                   
                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
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                           BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                         
                                   AND INTERFERENCES                                  
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                               Ex parte ERIC C. ANDERSON                              
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                                   Appeal No. 2003-0557                               
                              Application 09/121,760                                  
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                              ON BRIEF                                                
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          Before THOMAS, FLEMING, and BARRY, Administrative Patent Judges.            
          THOMAS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                        

                                                                                     
                                   DECISION ON APPEAL                                 
               Appellant has appealed to the Board from the examiner's                
          final rejection of claims 1, 5-21 and 25-44.  Representative                
          claim 1 is reproduced below:                                                
               1.  A hand held image capture device for automatically                 
          categorizing images, wherein said hand held image capture device            
          captures raw image data of a live view subject, comprising:                 
               a processor within said hand held image capture device for             
          converting the raw image data into processed image data during an           
          image processing process;                                                   

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