Appeal 2007-1100
Application 10/384,642
the images and select a desired thumbnail image. The selected thumbnail
image is enlarged as shown in Fig. 7 (showing both selected thumbnail
image 186a and corresponding enlarged image 186b). If no thumbnail
image is selected, then the first thumbnail image in the photo gallery is
shown both as a thumbnail image and an enlarged image (Angiulo, Fig. 7;
¶ 0065).
Significantly, both Miyao and Angiulo provide the ability to
consecutively scroll through an array of images and automatically enlarge
one image of the array. Although Miyao sequentially scrolls through the
various images by simulating a rotation of the ring that contains the images,
the images are nonetheless viewed consecutively with the first image in the
array (i.e., the image in the front row) enlarged.
Taking into account the inferences and creative steps that one of
ordinary skill in the art would employ,7 we conclude that the skilled artisan
would have been motivated to combine the consecutive viewing and
enlargement capability achieved by the ring-like array of images in Miyao
with a linear array as suggested by Angiulo -- an arrangement that likewise
provides a consecutive image viewing and enlargement capability.
We reach this conclusion emphasizing that the array of images in
Miyao appears to the user as three-dimensional ring-like formation due to
the particular perspective of the images displayed on the LCD screen. That
is, the user’s view of the images is such that the viewer appears to see the
ring of images at an angle with respect to the plane that contains the ring of
images. Thus, the images appear to be viewed from a position located in
7 See KSR Int’l Co. v. Teleflex Inc., 127 S. Ct. at 1741, 82 USPQ2d at 1396.
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