Appeal No. 2006-1020
Application No. 09/899,066
swapping a crystal LPF with one of different properties for
the proposition that Mizoguchi fails to teach inserting an
OLPF when photographing in color to eliminate false color
and removing an OLPF when photographing in black and white
to attain resolution (Brief at page 25).
Appellant further argues that Mizoguchi fails to
disclose “day-night photographing”; however, Mizoguchi
necessarily involves this method because it teaches
consideration of the photographic conditions unique to the
particular day (Col. 19 lines 51-61) within the context of
changing camera modes in accordance with detected light
intensity.
With respect to appellant’s arguments that Mizoguchi
is directed to the imaging of different objects and that
the combination involves improper hindsight, we note that
Mizoguchi is only relied upon for the method of using an
OLPF to improve image quality in a CCD camera. It would
have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art at
the time of the invention to have incorporated an OLPF in
the combined method of Beis and Chino for the purpose of
eliminating false color and attaining high resolution,
especially given that it would have been a trivial matter
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