Appeal No. 96-1463
Application 08/048,181
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims
1 through 12. In an Amendment After Final (paper number 9),
claim 9 was amended.
The disclosed invention relates to a method and apparatus
for adjusting the positions of a plurality of images so that
the plurality of images may overlap one upon another.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it
reads as follows:
1. An image position adjusting apparatus for adjusting
the positions of a plurality of images such that the plurality
of the images may overlap one upon another, comprising:
i) an image display means for reproducing the respective
images from image signals, which represent the respective
images, and displaying the reproduced images,
ii) a transformation means for transforming each of the
images, which are displayed on said image display means, into
a simple image, said simple image being represented by only
the image signal components of the corresponding image signal
which have signal values larger than a predetermined threshold
value,
iii) a polygon display means for displaying an arbitrary
polygon on each of said simple images,
iv) a shift means for shifting the polygon displayed on
each of said simple images,
v) a deformation means for deforming the polygon, which
is displayed on one of said simple images, and deforming the
polygons, which are displayed on the other simple images, so
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