Appeal No. 2000-2067
Application No. 08/859,278
4, lines 60-65 of Cohen-Skalli. Cohen-Skalli also discloses that
the routing unit (14) is connected to an encoding unit (15.2).
See column 3, lines 59-62 of Cohen-Skalli. Further disclosed by
Cohen-Skalli is a scanner 8 connected to the routing unit (14)
via an interface (20). See column 3, lines 49-58 of Cohen-
Skalli. Upon reviewing Cohen-Skalli, we find nothing in the
reference that teaches two different processors, (i.e., a central
processing unit and an image processor) for processing in an
image processing system.
We fail to find anywhere in the Answer where the Examiner
has provided arguments or suggestions to modify the single CPU
arrangement disclosed by Cohen-Skalli to be a dual processor
system as claimed. Rather, as stated supra, we find that the
Examiner relies on the processor (13) to do both the central
processing and the image processing. Further, having reviewed
the remaining references, Kawamata and Hirota, we fail to find
factual basis or motivation for suggesting the modification of
the single CPU arrangement disclosed by Cohen-Skalli to be a dual
processor system as claimed. Instead, we note that these
references are relied upon by the Examiner to meet alternative
claim limitations and we find that these references disclose
image processing systems with single processors. Therefore, we
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