Ex parte HASHIMOTO et al. - Page 16




          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.                                            
                                     CONCLUSION                                       









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