Appeal No. 1998-0668
Application 08/036,650
agree with Appellant that "Hermann is a color matching
system, not a process for transferring or reproducing
multicolored images on textile substrates" (Br8). Hermann
describes color atlases, but does not describe that the
color atlases are used as in claim 20.
Appellant argues that Hermann does not disclose
dividing a multicolored printing original into image areas
(Br5).
The Examiner responds that Hermann teaches, at
column 5, lines 1-17, segmenting a given pattern into
segments for correcting the form and color (EA10).
Hermann discloses recording a given shade and pattern
electronically, displaying the color or form on a monitor
and correcting it with respect to form and color (col. 5,
lines 1-9). However, this does not require segmenting the
pattern into image areas having different colors. The
segmentation of the color space (e.g., col. 4, line 32) is
not the same thing as segmentation of the image. Again, it
may have been trivially obvious to divide the original into
image areas as in conventional printing processes, but this
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