Appeal No. 2000-0125
Application No. 08/681,646
OPINION
Appellants contend (Brief at 2-4) that the section 102 rejection of claim 1 is in
error. Appellants allege that Oshikoshi fails to teach or suggest automatically analyzing
and adjusting images, and further fails to teach or suggest modifying one image with
respect to the other.
The examiner responds that “[i]t is obvious that the CG [computer graphic] image
and the human subject images would have different visual characteristics from each
other, and that each image would have to be corrected to make them more visually
compatible.” (Answer at 5.) The examiner also reasons (id. at 5-6) that controller 18 of
Oshikoshi performs color correction of the images, implying that “automatic” processing
is being performed.
Oshikoshi discloses that a human subject image may be captured by color TV
camera 12 (Fig. 1). A digital form of the image is stored in frame memory 15.
Computer graphic images are provided on diskette 17 (Fig. 1). Col. 3, ll. 22-47. Look-
up table memory 20 contains data for gradation correction of the subject image and CG
image according to lighting conditions, type of photographic film, CG images used, etc.
Col. 3, l. 48 - col. 4, l. 2.
The image signals of the human subject and CG image, after color correction by
circuit 21, are sent to a positive image look-up table memory 24a or a negative image
look-up table memory 24b for further correction, based on processing of the images
which is to be performed. Relative placement of the subject and CG image is
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