Appeal No. 2000-0141 Page 5
Application No. 08/673,693
something” about the art “apart from what the references
disclose.”
In re Jacoby, 309 F.2d 513, 516, 135 USPQ 317, 319 (CCPA
1962). With these principles in mind, rather than reiterate
the arguments of the appellants or examiner in toto, we
address the main point of contention therebetween.
The examiner alleges that in Ruoff “[i]t is inherent that
by scanning the area of the video in a high resolution mode
and the other area in a low resolution mode that the bandwidth
in the area of interest is increased considerably."
(Examiner's Answer at 6-7 (emphasis added).) He also asserts,
“Bouve teaches the many different ways of increasing the
bandwidth and the item of interest is one which would benefit
from it (see column 14, lines 20-42).” (Id. at 7.) The
appellants argue, "[a]n increase of resolution of an image
does not imply an increase in bandwidth allocated to the
transmission of this image." (Reply Br. at 2.) They further
argue, “Bouve requires ‘sufficient bandwidth’ but nowhere
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