Appeal No. 1999-2040
Application No. 08/475,023 Page 17
characters and lines and selective modification of saturation
colors if the objects are of the predetermined type. Appellants
present no specific arguments with respect to claim 21. Claim 21
therefore stands or falls with claim 10 from which it depends.
We turn first to independent claim 10. The limitation at
issue is "determining whether an object in an image is one of a
predetermined category of objects." In Spaulding, each input
color value can be considered an object. However, Spaulding does
not have categories of objects. Oshikoshi is directed to
effecting gradation and color correction of a composite image for
printing, for example, identification cards (col. 1, lines 5-7,
and col. 3, lines 22-25). The composite image to be printed
includes an individual human color image and a computer graphic
color (CG) image such as a pattern or company identification
mark, along with printed characters (col. 1, lines 20-25). Color
correction is effected to provide a vivid color print. CG
images, although displayed clearly on a color monitor, are
generally faded when printed, making it desirable to correct CG
images so that the printed color is similar to that of the CG
image displayed on the color monitor (col. 2, lines 27-35).
However, color correction is not desirable for CG images having a
high chrome because of saturation of the output of the color
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