Appeal No. 1999-2040
Application No. 08/475,023 Page 16
balance, has nothing to do with the color transformation process
of Spaulding. Appellants further argue (id.) that if the
teachings of Spaulding and Oshikoshi were combined, the logical
combination would be to first carry out the color correction
image in a given color space, and then carry out the color
matching process of Spaulding, i.e., that the procedures of the
two patents would be carried out sequentially, rather than
integrated together. With respect to claim 3, appellants assert
(brief, page 13) that “there is no teaching in either patent
individually, or in their combination, of the steps of
determining a limit value for a parameter, modifying values of
that parameter for colors whose components have a value greater
than that limit, and maintaining the values of that parameter for
colors whose components have a value less than the limit to be
the same as the parameter values for the nominal color.” With
respect to claims 4, 5, 10, 15, 16 and 19, appellants (brief,
page 13) present a general argument referring to their earlier
argument that the only logical combination of Spaulding and
Oshikoshi would be to sequentially apply their teaching.
Appellants add (id., pages 13 and 14) that Oshikoshi does not
disclose the specific claimed concepts of determining whether
objects of an image are of a particular type, such as text
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