Appeal No. 1998-1387 Page 16 Application No. 08/208,791 Representative claim 13 specifies in pertinent part the following limitation: “means for detecting a high frequency component of the skin-colored portion signal.” The prior art would have suggested these limitations. Haruki teaches obtaining a high frequency component of a signal. Specifically, “A luminance signal in the video signal obtained from the image sensing circuit 8 is applied to a high-pass filter (HPF) 9 ....” Col. 5, ll. 58-60. The HPF is “set to allow the passage of the band of 200 KHz to 2.4 MHz ....” Col. 6, ll. 60-61. As mentioned regarding claims 10, 18, and 20, Imai teaches extracting human skin color. In view of these teachings, we are persuaded that the combination of references in combination with the prior art as a whole would have suggested the claimed limitation of means for detecting a high frequency component of the skin-colored portion signal. Therefore, we affirm the rejection of claims 13 and 19 under 35 U.S.C. § 103. CONCLUSIONPage: Previous 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007