Appeal No. 97-1010
Application 08/147,815
patterns from said memory means;
computing, in a computing means, said absolute start positions of said basic patterns from said
read origin position data and start position data; and
generating said desired character pattern by computing a plurality of coordinates of said basic
patterns from respective absolute start positions and said shape data,
wherein origin position data of said partial patterns set in a coordinate system whose size is 1/n
of said character coordinate system is stored in said memory means in said storing step, n being an
integer; and
said computing step multiplies, in said computing means, said origin position data by n and adds
resultant origin position data to said start position data of said basic patterns to obtain said absolute
start positions.
Opinion
Our opinion is based solely on the arguments raised by the appellants in their brief. We do not
address and offer no opinion on reasonings which have not been articulated. In that connection, non-
raised arguments are regarded as waived.
At the outset, however, we note that the examiner’s discussion with respect to Uehara is
limited. The entire discussion is reproduced below (answer at page 8):
The applicant’s “skeleton patterns of said partial patterns” reads on Uehara
“skeleton lines” mentioned in the abstract.
The applicant’s “offset data of each of said frame patterns of the associated basic
patterns” reads on the disclosure of Uehara’s disclosure of “[c]oordinates for the
position and formulas for the scaling and borders of characters are maintained in the
outline font method. Only one set is necessary for each character, since high quality
characters can be scaled up or down and placed in any desired position” (column 2,
lines 49-53). The borders mentioned read on the applicant’s frame patterns, and the
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