Appeal No. 96-0139
Application 08/037,683
inadequate support for it in the specification are distinct
questions); and
In re Miller, 441 F.2d 689, 693, 169 USPQ 597, 600 (CCPA 1971)
(breadth should not be confused with indefiniteness). Because
the examiner has not demonstrated (or even alleged) that the
claims are ambiguous, the rejection of claims 4 and 7 under
the second paragraph of § 112 is reversed.
Turning now to the art rejection, claims 3-5 and 7 stand
rejected under § 103 for obviousness over Kondo in view of
Maemori. Kondo discloses methods and apparatus for
compressing digital color signals to reduce the size of the
memory required to store data representing a color image (col.
1, lines 10-38; col. 2, lines 23-26). Referring to Figure 1
of Kondo and to column 4, line 44 to column 5, line 6, Kondo’s
system includes a video camera 1 for generating analog
signals, A/D converters 2R, 2G, and 2B for converting the
analog signals to digital R, G, and B video signals, VRAMs 3R,
3G, and 3B for temporarily storing
8-bit R, G, and B color data for each pixel of a 2048 x 2048
pixel picture, a CPU 5, ROM 6, and RAM 7 for compressing the
color data into compressed color display data dd, a recording
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