Appeal No. 1999-2023
Application No. 08/556,119
It discloses the details regarding perimeter vector
and transformation process, ‘transforming means for
designating an area on the predetermined plane
including the computed coordinates and for
transforming the computed coordinates included in
the designated area based on the transforming data;
overlapping determining means for determining
whether an area enclosed by coordinates of a closed
curve line including the transformed coordinates is
overlapped with an area enclosed by the coordinates
of a different closed curved line or lines’....
Our own study of the references shows that Sato discloses
means of constructing a human face by selecting prestored
parts of the human face, see column 11, line 63 to column 12,
line 49.
Whereas this process yields a montage of a human face, it does
not have the flexibility of the recited means to create a
facial image by determining a second plurality of feature
points within said facial perimeter distributed along said
facial perimeter.
The deficiency of Sato is not cured by Steir. Steir
discloses, Figures 6-11 and column 7, line 8 to column 9, line
20, how a selected hair image can be smoothed at selected
anchor points such as 110, 112 and 114 in Figure 6 selected on
the facial image of a person photographed in Figure 2.
Therefore, whereas Steir may be considered to show the
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