Appeal No. 95-1516
Application No. 07/672,497
circuit and a density correction circuit, as claimed, for
providing sharper, finer images. Upon modifying the Hirane
device, whose shift register has been replaced with the 3-bit
shift register of Zeise, the output of the density correction
circuit would have been provided to the shift register in
order to refine the image represented by the data therein.
2. With regard to appellant’s argument that the laser beam
intensity of Suzuki is varied only between two levels in
contrast to the instant invention wherein the image processing
system can control the amount of current individually for each
pattern detected, while this may be so, the individually
controlled current for each pattern detected and the number of
laser beam intensity levels form no part of the instant
claimed subject matter. However, to the extent that appellant
is claiming such individually controlled current for each
pattern detected in instant claim 2, the applied references do
teach a plurality of LEDs as the light source and Hirane
teaches a plurality of current control circuits for
controlling an amount of current supplied to the LEDs.
Appellant’s arguments have not convinced us of any error
in our decision of June 19, 1997. Accordingly, appellant’s
request for reconsideration has been granted to the extent
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