Appeal No. 1999-2719
Application No. 08/637,807
With respect to claim 25, appellants argue (brief,
pages 12 and 13) that Yoshimura does not teach “selection
of pictures from a larger group of pictures,” that “[n]o
identification of pictures from a larger group of
pictures is performed by Yoshimura’s controller 132,” and
that “all of the images on the disk are displayed” in
Yoshimura.
Appellants’ arguments to the contrary
notwithstanding, Yoshimura discloses a controller,
playback device and display device that identifies,
retrieves and displays a plurality of pictures from the
recording medium (Figure 12; column 10, line 59 through
column 11, line 16). The retrieved images in the 5x5
matrix are simultaneously displayed as claimed. Nothing
in claim 25 on appeal requires the identification and the
selection of pictures from a larger group of pictures.
Appellants and the examiner both agree that Yoshimura
does not disclose low resolution pictures (brief, page
11; answer, page 7). In the absence of a challenge to
the examiner’s Official Notice, we agree with the
examiner’s rationale that it would have been obvious to
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