Appeal No. 95-2827
Application 07/983,211
system which calculates the density of each pixel and corrects
the density with the error diffusion approach therein. The
examiner then concludes that it would have been obvious for
the artisan to have modified “the Eschbach system by injecting
the density by the distance with previous dots for a uniform
area or density.” By this we assume that the examiner
intended to reason that it would have been obvious to the
artisan to have modified Eschbach by replacing
density determinations with distance to previous dots
determinations for a uniform area or density determination.
Such reasoning is further asserted for each of the respective
independent claims on appeal.
As noted by appellant at page 6 of the principal brief on
appeal, it is not exactly clear what the examiner is intending
to mean by the language “injecting the density by the distance
with previous dots.” We agree with appellant’s belief, also
expressed at the bottom of page 6 of the principal brief on
appeal, that the examiner was attempting to state that
measuring the density in the vicinity of the present pixel in
Itoh is somehow equivalent to determining the distance to the
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