Appeal No. 1999-2023
Application No. 08/556,119
that “the present invention is not rendered obvious by the
Examiner’s combination of Sato, Steir and Hayashi because that
combination of references fails to show or suggest either the
individual elements recited in the present claims or the
combination of those elements to perform hair image
transformation.” The examiner responds, answer at page 9,
that:
Obviously these outlines [in Sato] are created by
connecting ‘feature points’ of a part numbers and
they have to correspond to the corresponding feature
points in order to compose a picture of a human face
which would be a desirable picture. Additionally,
Sato’s invention provides a montage composing
wherein, ‘[w]ith the above structure of the picture
composing apparatus, a montage of a human face which
moves in response to reproduced sounds’ . . . would
require a very extensive superimposing and
synchronization of various part numbers of human
face at a pixel level details.
Regarding Steir, the examiner responds that Steir discloses a
superimposing of hair styles on a human face (answer at page
9) and means for defining reference anchor points on the
facial image and means for superimposing the hair style image
on the facial image so that the defined location on the hair
style image fits those on the head image. With respect to
Hayashi, the examiner asserts (answer at page 10) that:
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