Appeal No. 2004-0317
Application No. 09/319,822
contends that it would have been obvious, in view of Faroudja’s
converter element 12 in Figure 3, to employ a converter in Yasuki
“because a converter would be needed, to modify standard
definition data, in order to display a picture, of increased
quality” (Paper No. 7-page 4). The examiner further contends
that it was “well known in the art” that “decompressing is an
inherent result of decoding” (Paper No. 7-page 4). Finally, the
examiner contends that Yasuki’s disclosure of a display (element
325 in Figure 1) would have made the use of a display processor
obvious since it was “well known in the art, that a display unit
must be accompanied by a display processor, to ensure proper
assembly, of an image” (Paper No. 7-page 4).
In our view, the examiner’s rationale falls short of
providing a prima facie case of obviousness.
While there may be other reasons that the examiner’s
reasoning is flawed, the first thing that strikes us is the
claimed recitation of a converter for converting the standard
definition formatted data to a format compatible with said high
definition formatted data. The examiner cites the converter
element 12 in Faroudja’s Figure 3 as such a converter.
Aside from an insufficient motive that would have led the
artisan to place such a converter in the Yasuki system, the
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