Appeal No. 96-0654
Application 08/103,207
obviousness, the claimed invention should be considered as a
whole; there is no legally recognizable 'heart' of the
invention." Para-Ordnance Mfg. v. SGS Importers Int’l, 73
F.3d 1085, 1087, 37 USPQ2d 1237, 1239 (Fed. Cir. 1995), cert.
denied, 117 S.Ct. 80 (1996) citing W. L. Gore & Assocs. v.
Garlock, Inc., 721 F.2d 1540, 1548, 220 USPQ 303, 309 (Fed.
Cir. 1983), cert. denied, 469 U.S. 851 (1984).
Claims 1 through 15 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Takagi. Appellant argues on pages
15-20 of the brief that Takagi fails to teach or to suggest an
apparatus generating a high definition picture in a video
camera comprising a signal processor receiving each respective
Nth electrical signal for interpolating and generating a high
definition picture corresponding collectively to N pieces of
received image as recited in Appellant's claim 1. Appellant
argues that nowhere is it taught or suggested to modify Takagi
to provide interpolating between the image signals to generate
a high definition video picture. Appellant argues on pages 8-
10 of the reply brief that Takagi teaches away from
interpolating because Takagi teaches a document scanner for
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