Appeal No. 2002-2177 Page 15
Application No. 08/777,424
We do not contest that Adobe displays a window allowing a user to input data
correcting one image. For example, a "Threshold dialog box . . . display[s] a histogram
of the luminance levels of the pixels in the current selection." P. 126. A user can
"[d]rag the slider below the histogram until the threshold level [he] want[s] appears at
the top of the dialog box. As [he] drag[s], the image changes to reflect the new
threshold setting." Id. We are unpersauded, however, that Adobe also displays a
dialog box allowing a user to input data for correcting all images inputted.
Absent a teaching or suggestion that an image editing device display a window
allowing a user to input data for correcting all images inputted to the device and a
window near a subset of the images allowing a user to input data for correcting the
subset, we are unpersuaded of a prima facie case of obviousness. Therefore, we
reverse the obviousness rejection of claim 14 and of claims 15, 19, and 24, which fall
therewith.
D. CLAIMS 16 AND 25
Taking official notice "that multi-tasking was notoriously well-known," (Examiner's
Answer at 18), the examiner asserts [i]t would have been obvious . . . to perform editing
steps in Taniguchi during the sequential input operation element 21, Fig. 1, in order to
save time by adding sufficient memory to perform these operations simultaneously."
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