Appeal No. 1997-0014 Application No. 08/192,937 The examiner’s contentions to the contrary notwithstanding, memory storage size in image digitizer 50 is not discussed in column 5 or in any other column of D’Aoust. The mere fact that D’Aoust’s “entities 48, 52, 56, 60, and 64 represent a single document image pipelined processing assembly” (column 4, lines 23 through 26; Figure 2) does not mean that compression and other steps may take place while image data is still being received from the document scanner. D’Aoust is completely silent concerning the use of the “pipeline-based system . . . to perform operations concurrently rather than sequentially so that maximum efficiency can be achieved.” Appellants argue (Reply Brief, page 3) that: None of the prior art including D’Aoust ‘104 discloses or suggests a combination of elements in which a standard compression algorithm like the CCITT compression algorithm is applied to compressing non-transposed pixel data scanned from a document using a document scanner in a multiple processing channel environment wherein . . . compression in each channel begins after the first non-transposed scan line of pixels is generated but before the last non-transposed scan line of pixels is derived from scanning the document . . . . We agree with appellants’ arguments. When the teachings of D’Aoust are considered in toto, it is very clear that the 5Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007