The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for
publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex Parte KAORU HOSOKAWA and KOHJI NAKAMORI
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Appeal No. 2006-1448
Application No. 10/444,868
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ON BRIEF
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Before JERRY SMITH, BLANKENSHIP and HOMERE, Administrative Patent Judges.
JERRY SMITH, Administrative Patent Judge.
This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the examiner’s rejection of
claims 1-20, which constitute all the claims in the application.
The disclosed invention pertains to a method and apparatus for simultaneously
displaying different images in one whole display area, and easily performing the switching
and selection of display.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A method of simultaneously displaying a whole image comprised of an image
before processing and at least one image after processing on a whole image display area,
comprising the steps of:
selecting at least one area of the whole image display area to display at least a portion
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