Appeal No. 2002-1448
Application 09/067,321
by which the findings are deemed to support the agency’s
conclusion.” In re Lee, 277 F.3d 1338, 1344, 61 USPQ2d 1430,
1434 (Fed. Cir. 2002).
Appellants argue that Elliot does not teach or suggest a
texel map comprising texels each having a color value, a
two-dimensional texel coordinate and a control code. Appellants
point out that Appellants’ claim 1 recites “for each respective
pixel, obtaining from a texture map a corresponding texel, the
corresponding texel comprising a control code and a color value
and having a two-dimensional texel coordinate.” See pages 12 and
13 of the brief.
We note that independent claims 7, 14 and 21 recite similar
language as quoted above for claim 1. Thus, we find that all of
the claims before us require this limitation.
We note that the Examiner states that Elliot does not
specifically disclose a method comprising the use of a control
code stored with the texel color data to selectively enable or
disable the application of a lighting condition to texel data for
a graphics primitive when rendering the primitive. See page 5 of
the Examiner’s answer. The Examiner argues that it would have
been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art to derive the
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