Appeal No. 95-3270
Application 08/080,689
(Figure 1) is used to select a particular character and
thereby establish which daisy wheel printing unit 27 and print
element 84 will be activated to print the selected character.
As an alternative, the patentee (column 10, lines 50 through 53,
and column 11, lines 33 through 40) contemplates generating a
digital address for retrieving a prerecorded storage character to
be printed.
The Toyoda patent teaches a photoelectric reader which
enables one to record only a selected portion of an original,
such as a portion of a page document. This is accomplished by a
reader part R moving on an original 8 to read or scan selected
image data and transform same into electric signals, which
signals are used for effecting the recording of the images on
paper 7 in a printer part P (Figure 1).
While, as evidenced by the Toyoda teaching,
photoelectric readers are certainly known, it is readily apparent
to us that one having ordinary skill in the art, absent
appellants’ own explicit teaching, would not have been motivated,
from a combined consideration of the respective teachings of
Johnson and Toyoda alone, to alter the teaching of Johnson as
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