Appeal No. 2005-0435 Application No. 09/359,523 Claims 1-18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Tamura and Takakura. We make reference to the answer (Paper No. 9, mailed April 19, 2004) for the Examiner’s reasoning, and to the appeal brief (Paper No. 8, filed February 2, 2004) and the reply brief (Paper No. 10, filed June 24, 2004) for Appellants’ arguments thereagainst. OPINION With regard to the rejection of claims 1-7, Appellants argue that the values stored in the look-up tables (LUTs) of Takakura are rewritten with the information supplied by an information processing device instead of based on a value previously stored in the table memory (brief, page 10). Appellants further assert that Tamura’s system adjusts the color balance of the processed image, not using a LUT, but by counting up or down to tune the value of the red, blue or green components (brief, page 11). Additionally, Appellants argue that one skilled in the art would not be motivated to combine the references since nothing in them suggests updating Tamura’s counters with the level-specific offset correction of Takakura so that the values stored in the table memories are modified based in part on the values (brief, pages 13 & 14; reply brief, page 2). 3Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007