Appeal No. 1997-0017
Application No. 08/188,365
data is being input by the scanner. D’Aoust’s teaching
(column 18, lines 50 through 53) that “buffers 418, 420, 422
and 424 allow for up to three images to be packed while one is
being read by the communications processor 74" is irrelevant
to the claimed invention because the buffers 418, 420, 422 and
424 that form the compressed data buffer 64 (Figures 2 and 7)
receive image data after the compression operation in
transposer compressor assembly 60.
When the teachings of D’Aoust are considered in toto, it
is very clear that the document 16 is completely scanned
before the initiation of the compression operation (column 5,
line 3 through column 6, line 46).
Even if we assume for the sake of argument that it would
have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art to
modify D’Aoust with the disparate teachings of Kaku,
Chatterjee and Rohrer, the initiation of compression while the
document is still being scanned would not have been taught nor
would it have been suggested by the combined teachings of the
references. In summary, the obviousness rejection of claims
1, 2, 4, 9, 10, 12 through 14, 16 and 17 is reversed.
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