Appeal No. 2006-1695
Application No. 10/649,277
images [emphasis added]. Therefore, a plurality of resultant
images will exist for each respective original image of the
plurality of original images.
Turning to Takagi, we first note that the resultant images
displayed in Fig. 15 of Takagi are derived from the same original
image -- not a plurality of original images as claimed. Although
the examiner acknowledges this fact on page 4 of the answer, the
examiner nevertheless contends that Takagi's method is applicable
to any pictures to be taken by the camera. According to the
examiner, because the user can take as many preview images as
desired, a plurality of resultant images for each of a plurality
of original images is therefore created [answer, pages 4 and 14].
Although multiple original images would arguably produce
their own sets of predicted images derived from their respective
original images in Takagi, we conclude that given the purpose and
function of Takagi -- namely to photograph an image on film using
a particular photographic control value selected from a variety
of different control values -- the skilled artisan would not have
found obvious the claimed limitations even when combined with the
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