Ex Parte Ishigaki - Page 5

                 Appeal 2007-0664                                                                                    
                 Application 09/794,420                                                                              

                 separate screens 10 and 11 of Suso permit this as relied upon by the                                
                 Examiner and the parts of figure 2.  Moreover, within a single screen 11                            
                 there are clearly shown in figure 3b a plurality of images placed upon the                          
                 background image as well.  Corresponding renderings are shown in the                                
                 various parts of figures 5 through 8 of Suso.  In any event, the artisan would                      
                 well appreciate that Suso’s teachings expand upon and embellish Smith’s                             
                 teachings of overlaying images in background and foreground formats to                              
                 achieve a composite screen by superposing them.  In these respects then, it                         
                 clearly would have been obvious for the artisan to have combined the                                
                 teachings of both references as well.                                                               
                        Lastly, the features of dependent claim 13 are argued by Appellant.                          
                 This claim requires that the display of a background screen be degraded such                        
                 that the degradation of the image data is lowered one level.  Once again, it                        
                 appears clear to us that the artisan would have well appreciated that with                          
                 respect to the teachings associated with figure 10 of Smith, the discussion at                      
                 column 8, lines 4 through 9, clearly would have indicated the ability of the                        
                 artisan to choose to degrade an image by use of the erase button 1011 or                            
                 draw button 1012 such that the user may turn off or on selectively each bit of                      
                 an icon image simply by touching each block of the icon shown within the                            
                 editing screen 1010.  Thus, choosing fewer pixels as the Examiner expresses                         
                 at page 6 of the Answer degrades the image of either the foreground or                              
                 background images according to the teachings in Smith.  Appellant’s                                 
                 argument at the bottom of page 7 of the principal Brief on appeal and at page                       
                 5 of the Reply Brief that degradation is intended to mean changing the                              
                 contrast among levels of tone or shade of the image is not supported by the                         


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