Appeal No. 2002-2177 Page 8
Application No. 08/777,424
who intends to equalize brightness values, for example, chooses the "Equalize
command." P. 125, col. 2. Responding to the "command, Adobe Photoshop finds the
brightest and darkest values in the image, and averages all the brightness values so
that the darkest value represents black . . . and the brightest value represents white."
(Id.)
Because Taniguchi lays out image data using a pattern, and Adobe corrects
image data based of an intention of a user, we are persuaded that the combined
teachings of the references would have suggested laying out image data using a
pattern and correcting at least one of the image data based of an intention of a user.
Therefore, we affirm the rejection of claim 1 and of claims 2-7, 17, and 20, which fall
therewith.
2. First and Second Units
The appellants argue, "nothing is taught or suggested in th[e] cited art as to first
and second automatic layout units and using the second automatic layout unit to
receive a user intention and use same [sic] to correct an automatic layout result of the
first automatic unit." (Appeal Br. at 15.) Noting that "[t]he Appellants did not claim that
the units be two physically distinct units, nor does it appear that they intended to claim
this feature as two physically distinct units," (Examiner's Answer at 29), the examiner
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