Appeal No. 95-1516
Application No. 07/672,497
The new ground of rejection was against claims 1 through
3 and 5 under 35 U.S.C. ' 103 over Hirane in view of Zeise and
Suzuki. Our reasoning is set forth on pages 10-11 of the
decision of June 19, 1997 and we make reference thereto.
Appellant contends that this new ground of rejection is
improper.
In particular, appellant asserts two points:
1. That we did not take into account the limitation of claim 1
which recites
a density correction circuit for outputting
corrected picture signal data to said shift register
in accordance with the correction density data
selected by said density selective circuit
and that none of the cited references teaches or suggests this
claimed limitation. Appellant contrasts this limitation with
the teaching in Suzuki of encoder 43 outputting a binary 1 on
signal line S if the pixel pattern surrounding center pixel X
in register 38 corresponds to either a black or white line.
2. That the laser beam intensity in Suzuki is controlled by
the binary output S of encoder 43 so that the
intensity may be varied only between two levels in contrast to
the image processing system of the instant invention which can
1 Application for patent filed March 20, 1991.
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