Appeal No. 2005-0524
Application No. 10/028,124
no such anticipation was shifted to appellants to rebut the
examiner’s findings.
Appellants’ response is to contend that Noyama “neither
explicitly nor impliedly teaches ‘establishing a set of image
samples from a set of image sample values and geometrical
parameters [V]’” (brief-page 4).
The examiner has identified the composite image 50 of Noyama
as comprising the set of image samples, which are established
from a set of image sample values (CG image 20) and geometrical
parameters (from transformation data memory 21). Thus, the mere
allegation, by appellants, that Noyama does not teach these
claimed features, without more, is not convincing of non-
anticipation.
Appellants then argue that the composite image and original
CG image of Noyama “is not substantially similar to the presently
recited ‘image samples’ and ‘image sample values’” (brief-pages
4-5) because the present application discloses that an image
sample is “a weighted combination of several values from the set
of image values” and that there are “different types of image
sample values: luminance values, chrominance values, opacity
values and Boolean values” (brief-page 5). Therefore, appellants
conclude that “nowhere in Noyama. . .was it disclosed that the
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