Appeal No. 97-2706
Application No. 08/340,946
scale image is not identically described and is thus
not anticipated by Gonzales.
We agree. Gonzales is concerned with gray-level shading
in image processing (pages 47 and 48), and indicates that
“relationships, called convolution and correlation, are of
fundamental importance to an understanding of image processing
techniques based on the Fourier transform” (page 100). The
remainder of the publication discusses convolution and
correlation strictly in terms of mathematics. In summary, the
35 U.S.C. § 102(b) rejection of claims 14 and 15 is reversed
because Gonzales does not disclose any of the steps of the
claimed method.
The 35 U.S.C. § 103 rejection of claims 16 and 17 is
reversed for the same reason.
DECISION
The decision of the examiner rejecting claims 14 through
17 under the first paragraph of 35 U.S.C. § 112 is reversed.
The decision of the examiner rejecting claims 14 and 15 under
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