Appeal No. 96-0654
Application 08/103,207
document in which the entire document is illuminated by the
same light source where interpolation to compensate for time
differences in neither required nor desired. Appellant
further argues that Takagi teaches away from using
interpolation to compensate for time differences because
Takagi teaches a document scanner that does not introduce
these variation that require compensation by interpolation.
We agree.
Furthermore, we fail to find that either Hirahara or
Toriumi teach interpolation of data points in order to
generate a high definition video picture as required by
Appellant's claims. In column 3, lines 15-60, Hirahara
teaches a picture image reader which weights each picture
image information in the overlapped section and then adds the
weighted picture image information to produce one picture. In
column 2, lines 5-23, Toriumi teaches apparatus for combining
an image signal in which the density differences at the
interface of the combined images are smoothed.
Neither reference teaches the use of interpolation to generate
a high definition composite video picture as required by
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