Appeal No. 1998-2990
Application No. 08/433,642
Claims 7 and 27 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being unpatentable over Poulsen in view of Endo and Lee.
Claims 13, 14 and 17 through 20 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Poulsen in view of
Endo and Shiraishi.
Reference is made to the final rejection (paper number
8), the briefs (paper numbers 13 and 15) and the answer (paper
number 14) for the respective positions of the appellants and
the examiner.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the entire record before us,
and we will reverse the obviousness rejections of claims 1
through 31.
We agree with the examiner (final rejection, page 5) that
Poulsen discloses the steps of storing image data (column 4,
lines 24 through 28), displaying image data (column 4, lines
61 through 65), displaying graphic data on the display (column
14, lines 18 through 22), quantitatively processing image data
(column 14, lines 42 through 50), and producing background
data corresponding to noise (column 11, lines 21 through 27).
Appellants and the examiner both agree that Poulsen does not
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