Appeal No. 2003-1954
Application No. 09/296,020
second image is then modified, in accordance with the image characteristic information, to
produce a recreation of the original image.
At no point, in Dutton, is there a display of an altered display of the first object that
comprises an indication of the difference between the first and second objects, as claimed. The
end result of Dutton’s system is to display, at the second station, the original image presented at
the first station. It is true that a second image, at the second station, is operated upon by the
image characteristic information obtained from the comparator at the first station, because there
may be some difference between the original image and the first or second image, but this
“difference” is never part of a display and no display in Dutton displays any “indication of the
difference” between two objects.
The examiner explains, somewhat cryptically, at page 3 of the answer, that, in Dutton,
The first object is compared to the second object and the difference
between the objects is applied to the first object to produce a modified
first object. In doing so the resultant object is merely the first object
and the difference between first and second object. Examiner interprets
this to be a modification of the first object using the characteristics of
the second object, after the compare is performed.
If the examiner is interpreting the original image as the first object and the first image as
the second object in Dutton, it is true that these two objects are compared, but the only thing
produced from this comparison is “image characteristic information,” not a modified first object,
or a modified original image. The resultant object is merely the image characteristic
information, not a “first object and the difference between first and second object,” as contended
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