Appeal No. 2005-0319
Application No. 09/946,874
to describe the intensity of each color component the color, to the palette of colors
displayable or printable by the computer. See pages 2 and 3 of appellant’s
specification.
Claim 1 is representative of the invention and reproduced below:
1. A method for defining one or more entries in a color cube comprising:
obtaining a first color cube having a first color cube entry that defines a color
region;
obtaining a second color cube having a second color cube entry that defines
a color region, wherein the second color cube is smaller in size than the first color
cube;
mapping a list of two or more color indices to the second color cube entry,
wherein each color index represents a color that falls within the color region defined
by the second color cube entry that the color index is mapped to; and
determining one or more corresponding second color cube entries for the first
color cube entry; and
determining a color index to be placed in the first color cube entry based on
similarity by comparing the color region defined by the first color cube entry to each
of the colors represented by the color indices in the one or more corresponding
second color cube entries.
References
The references relied upon by the examiner are:
Stokes 5,627,950 May 6, 1997
Berlin et al. (Berlin) 6,011,540 Jan. 4, 2000
Rejections at Issue
Claims 1 through 9, 14 through 23, 28 through 37 and 42 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 102 as being anticipated by Berlin. Claims 10 through 13, 24
through 27 and 38 through 41 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
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