Appeal No. 2003-1842 Page 6
Application No. 09/179,290
the method." Col. 1, ll. 11-14. More specifically, a source "image to be processed is fed
through [an] image input section 10. . . ." Col. 5, ll. 43-44. A "space transform
section 14 serves to transform this image from the RGB color space to the HVC uniform
color space. Besides . . . this transform, the space transform section 14 will divide the
post-transform HVC uniform color space into a plurality of regions to prepare a color
table. . . ." Id. at ll. 47-52. "For instance, the HVC uniform color space is divided for use
into forty segments in the directions H, V, and C, respectively. Thus the color space will
be divided into 40×40×40 = 64000 regions. An average color for each region is defined
as a color [re]presentative of that region." Id. at ll. 52-57. "Using the representative
colors as elements, the space transform section 14 creates the color table." Id. at ll. 60-
61.
An "image replacement section 16 acts to replace the color of each pixel
of the image to be processed with any one of color numbers 1 to 64000." Col. 5, ll. 65-
67. "The thus obtained image in an intermediate processing state is integrated and
compressed by [an] image integration section 18." Col. 6, ll. 16-18. An "image
transmitter 30 further includes a color table creation section 36 which creates a new
color table by extracting color table elements necessary for the representation of the
final image after the completion of the region integration by the pixel integration
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