Appeal No. 1997-0197
Application No. 08/195,676
capacity. We note that the relevant portion of independent
claim 1 (a similar recitation in method form appears in
independent claim 7) recites:
means for automatically changing the
resolution setting from high to low
when the available memory in the storing
means is above a first predetermined level
and below a second predetermined level;
The Examiner contends (Answer, page 4) that the system of
Sakai which reduces the magnification or size of an image on
an indication of insufficient memory capacity inherently
results in a reduction in resolution since the number of
pixels used to represent the image data is reduced.
Upon careful review of the Sakai reference, however, we
are in agreement with Appellants’ stated position in the
Briefs that the Examiner’s attempt to equate a reduction in
size of an image with a reduction in resolution is in error.
In our view, Appellants are correct in their assertion that
resolution relates to the quality of an image, i.e., the
amount of data contained in a unit area of an image. A
reduction in image size, as in Sakai, reduces the total amount
of data used to represent an image but the amount of data in a
unit area remains the same.
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