Appeal No. 96-1455
Application No. 08/218,279
description contained in the applicant's specification." In re
Morris, 127 F.3d 1048, 1054, 44 USPQ2d 1023, 1027 (Fed. Cir.
1997). From a review of the specification and appellants'
arguments, the meaning of the limitation "automatically
analyzing said one or more corresponding images" is
understood. The specification refers to a computer measuring
a value (e.g. density) relating to the image and the computer
determines and assigns the aspect ratio of the one or more
corresponding images rather than determining the aspect ratio
of the image(s) from the associated markings stored with the
markings or by operator input.
The examiner has pointed to no specific teaching in
either Yoshiwaka or Hicks, nor presented any convincing line
of reasoning as to why it would have been obvious to one of
ordinary skill in the art at the time of the invention to
provide automatic analysis of the image(s) to determine the
aspect ratio. The mere existence that aspect ratio of images
is determined and portions of the systems or processes of
these prior art systems are automated as the Examiner has
asserted in the answer at pages 5-6 does not motivate the
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