Appeal No. 96-3087
Application 08/059,060
With respect to independent claim 41, the examiner
basically takes the position that Carlucci shows every thing
claimed therein except the intermediary color values. The
examiner contends that Rolleston shows the intermediary color
values in figure 1 as "colorimetric digital data" in an
analogous art for the purpose of device independent color
correction. The examiner concludes that it would have been
obvious, to one of ordinary skill in the art at the time of
the invention, to apply Rolleston's intermediary color values
to Carlucci's color correction because of Rolleston's taught
advantages of
intermediary color values for device independent color
correction [answer, pages 3 through 5].
The appellants argue that figure 4 of Carlucci, which the
examiner primarily relies on, shows the image correction based
only on the conditions of the scanner, and it cannot account
for changes in color appearance caused by changes in the
actual input viewing environment [brief, page 9]. The test
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