Appeal No. 1997-1197
Application 08/130,255
as shown in FIG. 2A, and are stored in buffer memory 15
. . . ." (Col. 7, lines 35-38.) Because the bits of the
words are output serially beginning with the LSB (e.g.,
col. 6, lines 25-26), the bits are output as, for example,
word 1, bit 0 (LSB or rightmost bit), bit 1, ..., bit 7 (MSB
or leftmost bit), word 2, bit 0, bit 1, etc. This is a
"sequence" of pixels (bits) as broadly claimed.
"When the 180-degree rotation command is input to
controller 18, the words are read out from the page memory
upon scanning as shown in FIG. 2C." (Col. 8, lines 15-17.)
The words are read out in inverse order for the 180-degree
rotation than from the 0-degree rotation. Because the bits of
the words are output serially beginning with the LSB, the bits
are output in sequence from the LSB of word 200 to the MSB of
word 1. This is a "second sequence different from the first
sequence."
Therefore, the page memory (storing a frame of pixel
data) is selectively read in two different bit (pixel)
sequences. Note that the rejection relies on the way the data
is read out from the page memory before it goes to the circuit
of figure 3. Because the output of Kajihara is word oriented,
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