The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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.Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007