Ex parte VANDERMEERSSCHE et al. - Page 5

          Appeal No. 95-3026                                                          
          Application No. 07/945,061                                                  


          (difference) between two images.”  Gonzalez describes (page 319)            
          a “root-mean-square (rms) error between an input and output                 
          image.”                                                                     
               Appellants argue throughout the brief that the applied                 
          references neither teach nor would they have suggested to one of            
          ordinary skill in the art producing separate arrays of pixels               
          representing the same specimen at two different times for before            
          and after abrasion analysis.  We agree.  Accordingly, the                   
          obviousness rejection is reversed.                                          
                                    DECISION                                          
               The decision of the examiner rejecting claims 1 through 20             
          under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is reversed.                                          
                                      REVERSED                                        



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