Appeal No. 95-1217
Application 08/039,674
for determining the relativity. Representative claim 7 is
reproduced as follows, with emphasis added to the relevant
language:
7. A method for using a computer to recognize objects
within a digitized video image, the method comprising:
processing the digitized video image in a plurality
of parallel processing chains, wherein;
one or more of the processing chains for analyzing
the content of the video image includes a series of processing
steps for identifying a relatively light target against a
relatively dark background, and;
one or more of the processing chains includes a
numerical inversion operation for inverting the shading within
the image such that a relatively dark image on a relatively
light background becomes equivalent to a relatively light
image on a relatively dark background.
This rejection is reversed because a person of ordinary
skill in the art would understand the bounds of the claim.
They would understand, for example, that because it recites a
"relatively light target against a relatively dark
background", claim 7 requires that the target must be lighter
than the background. The lightness of the target and darkness
of the background are viewed in relation to each other.
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