Appeal No. 2002-1670
Application 08/768,787
luminance component extraction means for extracting
luminance signals from color component data of each color of a
filter provided on said color image sensor when the object is
determined to be a black-and-white object by said determination
means.
The Examiner relies on the following prior art:
Miyasaka 5,196,929 Mar. 23, 1993
Shinbori et al. (Shinbori) 5,781,236 Jul. 14, 1998
(filed Mar. 02, 1995)
Claims 1-4, 8-17, 20-28, and 32-39 stand finally rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a). As evidence of obviousness, the
Examiner offers Shinbori alone with respect to claims 1-4, 8-17,
20-27 and 32-39, and adds Miyasaka to Shinbori with respect to
claim 28.1
Rather than reiterate the arguments of Appellant and the
Examiner, reference is made to the Briefs2 and Answer for the
respective details.
1 Claims 35-39 are not included in the heading of this rejection at page
4 of the Answer. The Examiner, however, has included them in the detailed
discussion of this rejection (Answer, pages 8 and 9) as has Appellant in the
arguments in the Briefs, and we will treat them as being part of this
rejection.
2 The Appeal Brief was filed September 17, 2001 (Paper no. 19). In
response to the Examiner’s Answer dated October 1, 2001 (Paper No. 20), a
Reply Brief was filed December 3, 2001 (Paper No. 22), which was acknowledged
and entered by the Examiner as indicated in the communication dated February
11, 2002 (Paper No. 23).
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