Appeal No. 1997-1008
Application No. 08/328,394
occurring.
Appellants then argue that Aisaka teaches obtaining more
information about a particular region in an image by selecting
a location on that image but that Aisaka provides no
suggestion that this location selection can be applied to
multiple video images concurrently moving on the screen.
Moreover, contend appellants, it would be “nonsensical” to
provide multiple moving images in Aisaka because the user’s
ability to select a particular location would be hindered by
such movement. However, the rejection employs Preston for the
teaching of multiple moving images and merely contends that
Aisaka’s method of obtaining more information from a still
image would be applied to images that move, such image
movement being shown by Preston. It is more a matter of
applying Aisaka’s teaching to a moving image environment than
to bodily incorporating moving images into the Aisaka system,
as appellants appear to be suggesting in their argument.
Thus, while appellants may be correct in their assessment that
there is no suggestion to provide multiple moving video images
in Aisaka, they fail to recognize the obviousness of expanding
Aisaka’s method of identifying areas in still images to use in
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