Appeal No. 1997-1339
Application 08/086,825
determining said center for said concentrically arranged circular color distribution to
be produced;
determining a center-to-center spacing of a center of a first picture element on a
recording medium from the center of the distribution, and assigning a color value for the
first picture element that corresponds to said spacing according to said stored function;
determining a center-to-center spacing for a second picture element which is a
neighboring picture element to said first picture element by evaluating said center-to-
center spacing of said first picture element and deriving the center-to-center spacing for
the second picture element from the center-to-center spacing of said first picture element
by using linear transformation steps, and assigning a color value for said second picture
element that corresponds to said center-to-center spacing of said second picture element
according to said stored function;
determining additional center-to-center spacings and corresponding color values
for additional color picture elements according to said stored function, said additional
center-to-center spacings being determined from center-to-center spacings of neighboring
picture elements and by use of only linear transformation steps; and
employing the determined color values for point-by-point and line-by-line recording
of the circular color distribution on the recording medium.
There are no references relied on by the examiner.
Claims 17 through 31 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 101 as being directed to
nonstatutory subject matter. Rather than repeat the positions of the appellant and the
examiner, reference is made to the briefs and the answer for the respective details thereof.
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