Appeal No. 1999-1893
Application No. 08/192,306
different sources of image data" (Answer, page 6). Even if we
assume for the sake of argument that the examiner is correct
that it would have been obvious to the skilled artisan to
apply the teachings of Keller or Nakajima to the teachings of
Sato “so that data from more than one source may be input and
the result recorded,” we must nevertheless agree with the
appellants that these teachings would not have suggested to
the skilled artisan that the image data on one memory package
17 should be transferred to another memory package 17 in Sato.
Although Kawamura uses a discrete cosine transformation
coding technique to compress/expand image data in a camera,
Kawamura, like the other applied references of record, neither
teaches nor would have suggested to the skilled artisan image
data transfer between two different memory cards in an editing
machine.
The reference to Wernikoff was applied by the examiner
(Answer, pages 7 and 8) to demonstrate that it is well known
in the art to store extension programs in a memory cartridge
as required by dependent claim 54. Wernikoff is silent as to
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