Appeal No. 96-3635
Application 08/209,096
stop document transport for scanning.
Following image quality monitoring, image data is transferred for temporary storage in an image
buffer 40. At convenient times, such as periods of low processing demands, the image data from buffer
40 is transferred to a longer term storage device 54.
Spence teaches magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) scanning of checks. Checks are
rejected whose MICR characters cannot be read after a plurality of scans, including a low speed scan.
A visual inspection of rejected checks is made in an attempt to find the correct
checking account number, and the customer and the check’s printer are notified that the MICR
characters that are on this particular customer’s checks cannot be read by the bank’s MICR
reader/sorters.
Behera assembles index files that carry information about check images and associated data of
accepted documents into a data group that contains a storage-location index. Column 6, line 46-49
and column 8, lines 18-35.
The Rejection under 35 U.S.C. §103
Claims 1 and 9
With respect to independent method claims 1 and 9, appellant contends that the examiner has
not provided a prima facie showing whereby the prior art anticipates or renders obvious appellant’s
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