Ex Parte Westphal et al - Page 13




         Appeal No. 2006-1695                                                       
         Application No. 10/649,277                                                 

         secondary references.  Specifically, we do not agree with the              
         examiner that the cited prior art teaches or suggests (1)                  
         selecting one compressed resultant image from each of the                  
         plurality of original images after compressing each of the                 
         resultant images, and (2) placing each of the selected compressed          
         resultant images into a concatenation file, let alone creating a           
         look-up table corresponding to the concatenation file as claimed.          
         Takagi is a film camera.  For any given photograph, once the               
         user selects at least one desired image among the plurality of             
         displayed predicted images as shown in Fig. 15, Takagi's film              
         camera then photographs the image based on the control values              
         associated with the selected image.  For additional photographs,           
         the process is repeated.  Takagi also discloses in col. 2, lines           
         40-44 and col. 13, lines 7-11 that the camera includes terminals           
         that connect a plurality of image signals stored by the camera's           
         image storing device to external storage media.                            
              Although Takagi teaches storing images, we find no teaching           
         or suggestion in the cited prior art to select one compressed              
         resultant image from each of the plurality of original images              








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