Appeal No. 97-1583
Application No. 08/340,785
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1
through 4, 7 through 11, 14 through 17 and 20.
The disclosed invention relates to the expansion of a
byte of pixel image data.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it
reads as follows:
1. A circuit for expanding a byte of pixel image data
having a bit resolution of at least two bits, comprising:
detecting means for detecting a bit resolution of the
byte of pixel image data, the bit resolution of the byte of
pixel image data being equal to an integer N; and
new pixel generating means for generating a new pixel
image data byte having a predetermined bit resolution, the
predetermined bit resolution being equal to an integer M, in
response to said detecting means detecting that the bit
resolution of the byte of pixel image data is less than the
predetermined bit resolution, the new pixel image data byte
being a compilation of the byte of pixel image data repeated
M/N times in the compilation, M/N being an integer.
The reference relied on by the examiner is:
Ochi et al. (Ochi) 4,698,688 Oct. 6,
1987
Claims 1, 2, 8, 9 and 14 through 16 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by Ochi.
Claims 3, 4, 7, 10, 11, 17 and 20 stand rejected under
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