Appeal No. 2002-1041
Application 08/866,402
supposed to indicate the same event of providing focus. Thus, we
will sustain the rejection of claim 21.
Claim 22
Claim 22 calls for also changing the coloration of the
visual representation.
The examiner notes that Volk teaches that the appearance of
control objects may be altered by changing the background colors
(FR3).
Appellants argue that there is no suggestion of three
changes in a display (Br11).
Volk teaches using multiple focus items in combination, such
as varying the size, shape, position, color, moving images,
video, sound "or a combination of these elements" (abstract).
One of ordinary skill in the art would have been motivated to use
multiple known ways of indicating a selected key in combination,
such as the enlarging the representation and giving the
appearance of a depressed key and using a color change, in view
of this teaching of Volk, to enhance the visual representation of
a selected key. Thus, we sustain the rejection of claim 22.
Claims 23 and 25
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