Appeal No. 95-1423
Application 07/928,883
characters is based on the “content and/or supporting
elements” of the characters being mapped in the first and
second states or the color transforming means.
Appellant’s specification fails completely to define
“cross-color mapping” and is less than clear in its
description of how the different states function. However,
during examination, we are required to give the claims their
broadest reasonable inter- pretation consistent with the
specification. In re Morris, 127 F.3d 1048, 1054, 44 USPQ2d
1023, 1027 (Fed. Cir. 1997). Accord- ingly, given the
broadest reasonable interpretation, we construe the claimed
“cross-color mapping” to merely require transforming
one or more input colors to one or more different output
colors. The two states described in claim 61, therefore,
merely require a first state where two hues or input colors
are transformed to a single output hue or color, and a second
state where two input hues or colors are transformed to two
respective output hues or colors, which may or may not be
different from the input color. The same is true of the two
states in claim 69, however the color transformations of claim
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