Appeal No. 96-4092
Application 08/278,363
respective memory decouples it from the good photosensor of
the other image. See abstract. In column 1, line 53, through
column 2, line 46, Meise discloses that Figure 1
shows a block diagram of an imaging apparatus that carries out
the above functions. In column 3, lines 9 through 25, Meise
does teach for color operations an arrangement such as that
shown may be used to respond to one or more of the primary
colors.
However, we fail to find that Meise teaches or even
suggests modifying Lougheed and Sudo's image defect correcting
circuit which detects and corrects pixel values based upon
pixel values of neighboring pixels. Furthermore, we fail to
find that Meise teaches or suggests detecting errors in each
of the colors of the pixel, supplying correction signals on
the basis of a combination of these defects, and correcting
the deviating pixel value based upon the correction signal for
each color.
The Federal Circuit states that "[t]he mere fact
that the prior art may be modified in the manner suggested by
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