Appeal No. 2005-0444
Application No. 10/025,671
image processing technique that lacks all the elements of the
claimed method of decompressing image data. Thus, assuming,
arguendo, that it would have been obvious to combine Hsu and
Hyatt with Honma, as held by the Examiner, the combination would
still fall short of teaching or suggesting the claimed image data
that is compressed by discarding or maintaining pixels.
Therefore, as the Examiner has failed to set forth a prima facie
case of obviousness, we cannot sustain the 35 U.S.C. § 103
rejection of independent claim 1 and claims 2-6, 8 and 9
dependent therefrom.
Turning now to the 35 U.S.C. § 103 rejection of claims 15-17
over Honma, APA and Hyatt, Appellant argues that the fill process
of Hyatt adds nothing to Honma to overcome the discussed
deficiencies related to maintaining or discarding pixels along or
perpendicular to an edge (brief, pages 13 & 14). Additionally,
Appellant points out that APA, although defining continuous and
non-continuous tone art information, does not describe the
recited manner of decompression (brief, page 14; reply brief,
page 3). The Examiner’s response focuses on the previously
discussed teachings of Honma and Hyatt and how APA discloses high
spatial resolution data containing non-continuous tone data using
extra resolution across the edges (answer, page 5).
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