Ex Parte ACHARYA et al - Page 1



           The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written  
                  for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.           
                                                                Paper No. 13           
                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                        
                                     ____________                                      
                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                    
                                     ____________                                      
                        Ex parte TINKU ACHARYA, YAP-PENG TAN,                          
                            PING-SING TSAI and WERNER METZ                             
                                     ____________                                      
                                 Appeal No. 2005-0435                                  
                             Application No. 09/359,5231                               
                                     ____________                                      
                                       ON BRIEF                                        
                                     ____________                                      
          Before JERRY SMITH, SAADAT and NAPPI, Administrative Patent                  
          Judges.                                                                      
          SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         

                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is a decision on appeal from the Examiner’s final                  
          rejection of claims 1-18, which are all of the claims pending in             
          this application.                                                            
               We reverse.                                                             
                                      BACKGROUND                                       
               Appellants’ invention relates to an image processing method             
          and apparatus.  According to Appellants, the raw data captured by            

               1  Application for patent filed July 23, 1999.                          




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