Appeal No. 1997-0017
Application No. 08/188,365
binary pixels, with said compressing step (e) being initiated
after receiving said first non-transposed column of binary
pixels but before said last non-transposed column of binary
pixels is received;
(f) repeating steps (b), (c), (d), and (e) for the
remaining non-transposed columns of binary pixels on the
document.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Rohrer 4,590,606 May 20,
1986
Kaku et al. (Kaku) 4,807,043 Feb. 21,
1989
D’Aoust et al. (D’Aoust) 5,007,100 Apr.
9, 1991
Chatterjee 5,317,652 May 31,
1994
(filed June 5, 1991)
Claims 1, 2, 4, 9, 10, 12 through 14, 16 and 17 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
D’Aoust in view of Kaku, Chatterjee and Rohrer.
Reference is made to the briefs and the answers for the
respective positions of the appellant and the examiner.
OPINION
The obviousness rejection of claims 1, 2, 4, 9, 10, 12
through 14, 16 and 17 is reversed because the applied
references neither teach nor would have suggested to the
skilled artisan a compressing step or a compressing means that
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