Appeal No. 2002-2177 Page 7
Application No. 08/777,424
Genmark, Inc., 770 F.2d 1015, 1025, 226 USPQ 881, 886-87 (Fed. Cir. 1985) (quoting
In re Keller, 642 F.2d 413, 425, 208 USPQ 871, 881 (CCPA 1981)).
Here, Taniguchi discloses "an album printing device that lays out and prints
photographic images for multiple film frames on printing paper. . . ." P. 2. As explained
by the appellants, "[t]he device includes an arrangement pattern memory device in
which are stored beforehand multiple arrangement or alignment patterns
(templates). . . ." (Appeal Br. at 4.) The device's "reading unit reads information related
to the orientation that is stored for each photographic image. An arrangement pattern
detecting unit then detects or selects an arrangement or alignment pattern based on the
read information." (Id.) We find that Taniguchi then lays out the image data
constituting the photographs using the selected pattern, and "[t]he image data for the
photographs in album form is printed based on the selected pattern (Page 2, lines 1-18;
Page 14, lines 9-13)." (Id.)
For its part, Adobe "teaches techniques for using the Adobe Photoshop
computer program," (id. at 5), inter alia "to resize and resample images," Adobe, p. 87,
col. 1; "to make color corrections to images," p. 121, col. 1; and "to adjust the
brightness, contrast, gamma, hue, and saturation in an image. . . ." (Id.) We find that
Adobe corrects size, color, brightness, etc., based on an intention of a user. A user
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