Appeal 2007-0017
Application 10/074,179
Appellant replies that the exposure time has nothing to do with
computing a face quality figure of merit (Reply Br. 6-7). It is argued that
Ina never states that the camera is capable of computing the degree to which
the resultant image is blurred and the camera is incapable of informing a
user whether the image is blurred (Reply Br. 7).
Analysis
The limitation of "computing a face quality figure of merit for the
captured image" is a further limitation of the "checking" step, which is done
"in-camera," and should be interpreted to mean computing in the camera an
attribute of a face detected in the captured image, i.e., computing a number
representative of the quality of a face in the image. Ina does not compute a
number representative of the quality of a face or any other image. The
computations by the processor 92 are to combine two whole images into
one, and the computations by the controller 100 are to set exposure
parameters. Neither of these operations relate to computing a "face quality
figure of merit" or computing anything to do with the quality of the image.
While the user may subjectively judge a "face quality" from the combined
image 134 in Figure 14, wherein the "smiley" face at least suggests a face,
this does not meet the limitations of computing a face quality figure of merit
in-camera. Ina does not disclose "computing a face quality figure of merit
for the captured image."
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