Appeal No. 2006-1695
Application No. 10/649,277
[answer, pages 4 and 5]. The examiner first cites Lee as
teaching compressing picture data to display multiple pictures on
a digital camera screen simultaneously. Relying on the teachings
of Lee along with Fig. 15 of Takagi, the examiner finds that it
would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art at
the time of the invention to modify Takagi to compress each
resultant image prior to its display to fit the simultaneously-
displayed images on the screen [answer, pages 4, 5, and 14].
The examiner next cites Kuchta as teaching creating
thumbnail (compressed) versions of images and storing such
compressed images along with the full image as shown in Fig. 2B
[answer, page 5]. The examiner contends that storing thumbnail
images as in Fig. 2B of Kuchta places such images in a
concatenation file along with a directory (look-up table) to
retrieve the thumbnails [answer, pages 5 and 6]. In view of
Kuchta, the examiner concludes that it would have been obvious to
one of ordinary skill in the art at the time of the invention to
modify the Takagi/Lee combination by placing each selected
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