Ex parte HIRAYAMA - Page 3




          Appeal No. 1996-2046                                                        
          Application 07/978,450                                                      



               (e) means responsive to said pen for designating a                     
          currently displayed page as a first page of a sequence of                   
          pages which is an object of a predetermined process;                        
               (f) means responsive to said pen for changing a displayed              
          page so as to select a previous (back) or next (forward) page               
          for display;                                                                

               (g) means responsive to said pen for designating a                     
          currently displayed page as a last page of said sequence;                   
               (h) means responsive to said pen for starting said                     
          predetermined process from said first page to said last page                
          in said sequence of pages;                                                  
               (i) means for storing plural descriptive images                        
          designating said predetermined process including an image of a              
          machine for performing the process;                                         
               (j) means for controlling said means for storing so as to              
          display said descriptive images successively as a series of                 
          moving images to visually represent documents moving in                     
          relation to said image of a machine, to graphically simulate                
          performing said predetermined process.                                      

          The examiner relies on the following references:                            
          Saki et al. (Saki)            4,965,558          Oct. 23, 1990              
          Brewer et al. (Brewer)        5,347,628          Sep. 13, 1994              
          (filed Jan. 18,                                                             
          1990)                                                                       
          Tim Field, Using MacWrite  and MacPaint , Copyright 1984 byTM            TM                                   
          McGraw-Hill, pages 4, 8, 14, 22, 43-47 and 155.                             
          Claims 2-9, 12, 13 and 15 stand rejected under 35                           
          U.S.C. § 103.  As evidence of obviousness the examiner offers               
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