Ex Parte ACHARYA et al - Page 3



          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).                                         
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