Appeal 2006-3362
Application 09/838,365
under user control, and may be as simple as arrows on the screen.
(Specification 15, top). The documents are envisioned as web
pages, with HTML tags referencing a source document containing
the image. (Specification 11: 30+). A browser, adapted according
to the invention, may continue to download a larger size image into
memory while the user is viewing the thumbnail first image.
(Specification 13, top).
2. Appellants have specified that the invention may be implemented
as computer instructions on a computer readable medium, and
state, “Examples of computer readable media include recordable-
type media, such as a floppy disk, a hard disk drive, a RAM, CD-
ROMs, DVD-ROMs, and transmission-type media, such as digital
and analog communications links, wired or wireless
communications links using transmission forms, such as, for
example, radio frequency and light wave transmissions.”
(Specification 15: 24 ff).
3. The reference Scott teaches, in the context of a browser displaying
a web page, the display of small thumbnail images representing
full desired images, which thumbnails can be enlarged gracefully
into larger, high resolution images. (¶ 0074). While the
enlargement of the thumbnail on the screen is being animated
using crude pixel replication (¶ 0075, Fig. 5), the system is
retrieving a new, larger, higher resolution image that will replace
the smaller image on the web page. (Id.). Control of the
enlargement is performed using a mouse clicking on a control
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