Appeal No. 96-4092 Application 08/278,363 'heart' of the invention." Para-Ordnance Mfg. v. SGS Importers Int'l, Inc., 73 F.3d 1085, 1087, 37 USPQ2d 1237, 1239 (Fed. Cir. 1995), cert. denied, 117 S.Ct. 80 (1996) citing W. L. Gore & Assoc., Inc. v. Garlock, Inc., 721 F.2d 1540, 1548, 220 USPQ 303, 309 (Fed. Cir. 1983), cert. denied, 469 U.S. 851 (1984). In regard to the rejection of claims 1, 2, 4, 6 and 7 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Lougheed in view of Sudo and Meise, Appellant argues on pages 4 through 7 of the brief that Lougheed, Sudo and Meise, together or individually, fail to teach or suggest detecting errors in each of the colors, supplying correction signals on the basis of a combination of these defects, and correcting the deviant value on the basis of the correction signal for each color. In particular, Appellant points out that the only reference to the combination of signals from two different imagers is taught in Meise. However, Appellant submits that Meise does not examine the outputs from the imagers, nor does Meise examine the pixel 5Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007