Ex parte VAN DER VALK - Page 5




          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              

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