Appeal No. 1996-3955
Application 08/170,601
of appellants’ specification and the prior art, sets out and
circumscribes a particular area with a reasonable degree
of precision and particularity. See In re Moore, 439 F.2d
1232, 1235, 169 USPQ 236, 238 (CCPA 1971).
Appellants’ claim 1 states that the couplers and silver
halide are “balanced according to a diffusion-transfer-
convoluted eye-response.” The definition of this phrase which
appellants
rely upon (brief, page 6) is the following (specification,
page 20, lines 12-19):
The combination of this balancing, according to the
above described transfer coefficient relation of
Equation (1), and the utilization of particular
ratios of red, green, and blue sensitized emulsions
according to the above discussed eye response or
according to other enhanced visual discrimination
criteria, is defined herein to denote “diffusion-
transfer-convoluted eye-response”.
Regarding Equation (1), appellants state the following
(specification, page 19, line 32 - page 20, line 4):
We define the transfer coefficient T as
ijkl
relating the density of dye j obtained in the
receiver from imaging layer i (denoting distance to
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