Appeal No. 2005-0435
Application No. 09/359,523
Claims 1-18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Tamura and Takakura.
We make reference to the answer (Paper No. 9, mailed April
19, 2004) for the Examiner’s reasoning, and to the appeal brief
(Paper No. 8, filed February 2, 2004) and the reply brief (Paper
No. 10, filed June 24, 2004) for Appellants’ arguments
thereagainst.
OPINION
With regard to the rejection of claims 1-7, Appellants argue
that the values stored in the look-up tables (LUTs) of Takakura
are rewritten with the information supplied by an information
processing device instead of based on a value previously stored
in the table memory (brief, page 10). Appellants further assert
that Tamura’s system adjusts the color balance of the processed
image, not using a LUT, but by counting up or down to tune the
value of the red, blue or green components (brief, page 11).
Additionally, Appellants argue that one skilled in the art would
not be motivated to combine the references since nothing in them
suggests updating Tamura’s counters with the level-specific
offset correction of Takakura so that the values stored in the
table memories are modified based in part on the values (brief,
pages 13 & 14; reply brief, page 2).
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