Appeal No. 95-3380
Application 08/109,572
DECISION ON APPEAL
Appellants have appealed to the Board from the examiner’s
final rejection of claims 33 to 46, which are all the claims that
remain in the application.
Representative claim 33 is reproduced below:
33. A method of displaying objects on a computer graphics
system having a display with at least one block of pixels, said
block including at least two pixels therein, comprising the steps
of:
displaying, by the pixels within said block, at least a
portion of a first object;
storing a maximum depth value for the block of pixels
displaying the first object;
computing a single depth value for a second object to be
displayed by at least one pixel in said block; and
determining, in one comparison only between said maximum
depth value and said single depth value, whether all the pixels
in the block will continue to display the first object.
The following reference is relied on by the examiner:
Heckel 4,697,178 Sep. 29, 1987
Claims 33 to 46 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being obvious over Heckel alone.
Rather than repeat the positions of the appellants and the
examiner, reference is made to the Brief and the Answer for the
respective details thereof.
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