Appeal No. 2006-0830
Application No. 09/911,954
OPINION
Anticipation is established only when a single prior art
reference discloses, expressly or under principles of inherency,
each and every element of a claimed invention. RCA Corp. v.
Applied Digital Data Sys., Inc., 730 F.2d 1440, 1444, 221 USPQ 385,
388 (Fed. Cir.), cert. dismissed, 468 U.S. 1228 (1984), citing
Kalman v. Kimberly-Clark Corp., 713 F.2d 760, 772, 218 USPQ 781,
789 (Fed. Cir. 1983), cert. denied, 465 U.S. 1026 (1984).
With regard to independent claims 1, 4, 6, 13-15, 23, 24, and
27, the examiner applies Sobol by pointing to column 2, lines 14-
25, for examining color components of a pixel in the image (the
examiner asserts that Sobol examines the pixels to determine
whether they are of higher intensity or lower intensity), to column
4, lines 30-37, to show that Sobol’s method is applicable to pixels
with color components; and to column 2, lines 14-25, to show a
teaching of selectively applying a matrix (i.e., a filter) to the
color components of the pixel to create an output color component
only when the pixel is not in a dark area of the image, wherein
pixels with low intensity are not filtered with the Laplacian
matrix (column 2, lines 56-68).
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