Appeal No. 1999-2058
Application 08/433,643
to show error in the rejection as required by 37 CFR § 1.192(c)(8)(iv).
In any case, we agree with the Examiner that it would
have been obvious to provide "image data storing means for
storing image data" and "memory means for two-dimensionally
mapping and temporarily storing the image data stored in the
image data storing means" in Maayan. Maayan itself discloses
that it was known to store image data on a disk or magnetic
tape ("image data storing means") before processing (p. 24).
All processing in a computer inherently must be performed on
data in memory, which requires temporarily storing data from
the disk or magnetic tape in the computer memory.
Furthermore, Poulsen discloses that it was conventional to
store data in hard disk, floppy disk, tape (col. 4,
lines 46-47) and such data must be loaded into random access
memory to be used by the computer. It would have been obvious
to store the image data in Maayan in an image storing means,
such as a hard disk, and to transfer it to temporary memory
means for processing in view of Maayan and Poulsen.
For the reasons discussed above, we conclude that the
combination of Maayan and Poulsen provides sufficient evidence
to establish a prima facie case of obviousness, which has not
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