Appeal No. 1999-2040
Application No. 08/475,023 Page 19
Oshikoshi does not disclose determining whether an object in an
image is one of a category of objects. From the disclosure of
Oshkoshi that the composing of the human subject and CG image
signals can take place before correction of gradation, which is
performed by color correction circuit 21, we find that Oshkoshi
discloses "determining whether an object in an image is one of a
predetermined category of objects." In order to correct
gradation after the composing of the images, Oshkoshi would
inherently have to determine whether an object in an image fits
into the category of a human subject image or a CG image. The
issue thus becomes whether it would have been obvious to combine
the teachings of Spaulding and Oshikoshi as advanced by the
examiner to provide Spaulding with this feature. We agree with
the examiner that Spaulding and Oshkoshi are analogous art for
the reasons set forth in the answer, and add that both Spaulding
and Oshkoshi are directed to the solving the problem of color
correction of images, at least some of which look worse as
printed than how the same image appears on a color monitor.
However, because of the different approaches taken by Spaulding
and Oshikoshi i.e., in Spaulding input color values are broken
into subsets according to their saturation levels, and Oshkoshi
separates different types of images (human subject and CG) into
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