Appeal No. 96-3087
Application 08/059,060
differences between the claimed invention and the teachings of
the prior art. Second, the examiner must explain why the
identified differences would have been the result of an
obvious modification of the prior art.
In our view, the examiner has not properly met his first
responsibility or his second responsibility. The disclosure of
the invention and the appellants' brief describe the invention
as methods and means for transforming input image data into
intermediary color-image data encoding values, and further for
providing compatibility among disparate sources of input
images while additionally providing the capability of matching
the appearance of said input images on any of a plurality of
output devices for any of a plurality of viewing conditions.
Claim 41 contains, among others, the features of:
specifying an input-image viewing environment, specifying an
encoded-image viewing environment, and adjusting the
colorimetric values in accordance with the difference between
the chromatic characteristics of the two viewing environments.
Carlucci does not have the means and the capability of
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