Appeal No. 2003-1706
Application No. 09/672,826
search result including information indicating that the image is
located in the storing means while obtaining the image from the
database for causing the image to be subjected to the image
processing by the image processing means in the case where the
judging means has judged the image processing to be necessary.
73. An image search server connected to a database storing
images and to a plurality of image display terminals, for
searching the database in response to a search request of any of
the image display terminals and for outputting a search result to
the image display terminal, the image search server comprising:
storing means for storing an image obtained from the
database; and
control means having, for each of the image display
terminals, setting defining whether only the storing means or the
storing means as well as the database, are searched, and for
determining where to search according to the setting for each
terminal.
The prior art reference of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims is:
Taguchi et al. (Taguchi) 5,807,256 Sep. 15, 1998
Claims 1 through 62 and 68 through 78 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as being anticipated by Taguchi.
Reference is made to the Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 15,
mailed March 25, 2003) for the examiner's complete reasoning in
support of the rejection, and to appellant's Brief (Paper No. 14,
filed January 31, 2003) and Reply Brief (Paper No. 17, filed
May 27, 2003) for appellant's arguments thereagainst.
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