Appeal No. 97-1583
Application No. 08/340,785
Reference is made to the brief and the answer for the
respective positions of the appellant and the examiner.
OPINION
All of the rejections are reversed.
Appellant acknowledges (Brief, pages 4 and 5) that:
Ochi et al. discloses a process for expanding
image data having a first resolution to image data
having a second resolution wherein the second
resolution is greater than the first bit resolution.
To accomplish this expansion, Ochi et al. discloses
that a certain portion of the original byte of pixel
image data is copied and appended to one end of the
original byte of pixel image data to create a byte
of pixel image data having a new bit resolution.
This is clearly seen in Figures 2A, 2B, and 2C of
Ochi et al., as well as, Figure 6.
On the other hand, appellant argues (Brief, page 5) that “Ochi
et al. discloses an expansion process wherein only a portion
of the original byte of pixel image data is used to generate
the new pixel image data byte.” According to appellant
(Brief, page 5):
The teachings at Column 3, Lines 50-52 of Ochi
et al. refer to the description of Figure 6. As
taught by Ochi et al., Figure 6 illustrates the
generation of a ten-bit byte of pixel image data.
(See Column 3, Lines 47-49). Moreover, what Lines
50-52 of Column 3 describes is the generation of a
portion or subcomponent of the final byte of pixel
image data. This portion is an intermediate
product, not the final byte of pixel image data that
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