Appeal No. 1997-4047 Page 11
Application No. 08/309,508
compression, which is contrary” to the claims. (Appeal Br. at
9.) The examiner replies that he “does not agree that the
portions of Walowit cited by appellant requires the
compensation step be performed after the
compression/decompression steps. The cited portions say only
that the compensation is performed in the intermediate color
space ... to match the input and output color gamuts.”
(Examiner’s Answer at 11.) We agree with the appellant.
The examiner errs in interpreting the scope of the
claims. Claim 2 specifies in pertinent part the following
limitations:
means for subjecting converted Y,Cr,Cb color
signals to data compression,
means for subjecting compressed Y,Cr,Cb color
signals to data decompression ...,
...
means for compensating at least one of said
converted Y,Cr,Cb color signals ....
Similarly, claim 3 specifies in pertinent part the following
limitations:
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