Appeal No. 95-4183
Application 07/945,714
the disclosure of Kitano, it is unclear how anything taught by
Kitano relates to the "bit pattern of fringe" recited in instant
claim 14. Kitano indicates nowhere in the disclosure that a
fringe or a bit pattern of fringe is of any interest.
A "fringe," according to the instant specification is a
border around a character used where a character may be displayed
on a background having the same color as the character. See, for
example, page 18 of the instant specification:
...when a white colored character
pattern is displayed on a white
background it is difficult to
distinguish the character pattern
without fringe, the character pattern is
emphasized if black-fringed and easily
distinguished regardless of background
state.
The fringe is generated, in accordance with page 17 of the
instant specification, as follows:
...the character generator 7 receives
the character code G and the address
signal L and outputs bit pattern signals
of the character pattern line "P" and
character pattern lines above and below
the line according to the address signal
L when a fringe is requested.
The serial conversion circuit 8 which
receives these three character pattern
lines produces a fringe pattern "Y" and
outputs bit pattern signals of the
character pattern "P" and the fringe
pattern "Y" serially dot by dot.
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