Ex parte IOKA et al. - Page 3




          Appeal No. 96-1328                                         Page 3           
          Application No. 07/904,912                                                  
                    (d) means, responsive to modification of the                      
               end position or length of said scroll bar, for                         
               modifying motion data corresponding to said scroll                     
               bar.                                                                   
          Although all of the independent claims contain elements                     
          subject to 35 U.S.C. § 112[6], neither Appellants nor the                   
          examiner has identified corresponding elements in the                       
          specification or their equivalents.                                         
               On appeal, the examiner maintains rejections under                     
          35 U.S.C. § 103 on the basis of the following references:                   
          Ochi                        4,580,782                 8 Apr. 1986           
          Watanabe                    5,103,305                 7 Apr. 1992           
                                                         filed 26 Sep. 1990           
          Mills et al. (Mills)        5,237,648                17 Aug. 1993           
                                                          filed 8 June 1990           
          Specifically, the examiner rejects claims 1-9 over the                      
          combination of Ochi and Watanabe and claims 10 and 11 over the              
          combination of Mills and Watanabe.  Appellants have grouped                 
          the claims according to these rejections for the purposes of                
          this appeal.  The examiner has withdrawn all rejections under               
          35 U.S.C. § 112.                                                            
               Ochi discloses memory mapping schemes for one-dimensional              
          memory system for generating images to display during, e.g.,                
          video games.                                                                








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