Appeal No. 2006-3077
Application No. 09/911,912
various combinations fail to teach the limitation of blending transition
between pixels in the image. We agree.
Sugimoto, like Hieda, discloses a gamma correction circuit that uses a
reference signal to correct an output signal. In addition, Wu discloses a
pixel adaptive noise reduction filter for filtering a current pixel in a digital
video signal. The ordinarily skilled artisan would have readily recognized
that these teachings, taken alone or in various combinations, do not amount
to blending transition between pixels in the image.
After considering the entire record before us, we conclude that the
evidence relied upon and the level of skill in the particular art would not
have suggested to the ordinarily skilled artisan the invention as set forth in
claims 1 through 4, 17 and 18. Accordingly, we reverse the Examiner’s
rejection of claims 1 through 4, 17 and 18.
CONCLUSION
In view of the foregoing discussion, we have reversed the Examiner’s
rejection of claims 5 through 9 under 35 U.S.C. § 102. We have also
reversed the Examiner’s rejection of claims 1 through 4 and 10 through 18
under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
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