Appeal No. 97-1010
Application 08/147,815
The References Relied on by the Examiner
Uehara et al. (Uehara) 4,748,443 May 31, 1988
Ohno 5,305,433 Apr. 19, 1994
The Rejections on Appeal
Claims 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10-12, 15, 16, 18, 20, 21, 24, 25, 27-29, 32 and 33 stand finally rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Ohno in view of Uehara.
On page 11 of the appeal brief, the appellants have grouped together all claims on appeal for
single treatment.
The Invention
The invention is directed to a character generating apparatus which arranges a plurality of
partial patterns according to respective starting points to form a character for display.
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A character generating method for generating character patterns by arranging a plurality of
basic patterns constituting each of a plurality of partial patterns which in turn constitute a character
pattern, at respective start position defined from absolute start positions in a character coordinate
system, in accordance with a designated character size to form said plurality of partial patterns, and
generating said character pattern, said method comprising the steps of:
storing in a memory means origin position data representing origin positions of said partial
patterns in a partial-pattern coordinate system set in said character coordinate system, start position
data representing start positions of said basic patterns in said partial-pattern coordinate system and
shape data representing shapes of said basic patterns;
reading said origin position data of those individual partial patterns constituting a desired
character pattern and said start position data of those basic patterns constituting said individual partial
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