Appeal No. 1997-0201
Application No. 08/140,318
previous frame under consideration. The Examiner (Answer,
page 4) has attempted to address this claim language by,
initially, suggesting the inherency and conventionality of the
recited hardware components in the processing elements of
Komarek, further relying on Figures 4 and 5 of De Vos as
evidence of such assertion. Further, the Examiner suggests
that the MUX operation illustrated in Figure 4 of De Vos which
is described as selecting previous frame line data in
increments of 1, m times would necessarily multiplex odd and
even columns of pixels. Notwithstanding the merits of the
Examiner’s general contention as to the inherency of the
inclusion of registers, multiplexers, and accumulators in
processing elements, we find Appellant’s arguments to be
persuasive with respect to the claimed multiplexing of odd and
even columns of pixels. Aside from the bare, general
description of incrementing previous frame line data in De
Vos, the Examiner has pointed to no disclosure which would
lend support to the conclusion that odd and even pixel column
multiplexing is necessarily performed in De Vos. To the
contrary, as pointed out by Appellant (Brief, page 17), the
“meander” scheme described at page 1312 of De Vos can only
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