Appeal No. 1997-1197
Application 08/130,255
examine the claims in greater detail than argued by an
appellant, looking for nonobvious distinctions over the prior
art."); In re Wiechert, 370 F.2d 927, 936, 152 USPQ 247, 254
(CCPA 1967) ("This court has uniformly followed the sound
rule that an issue raised below which is not argued in this
court, even if it has been properly brought here by a reason
of appeal, is regarded as abandoned and will not be
considered. It is our function as a court to decide disputed
issues, not to create them."); In re Wiseman, 596 F.2d 1019,
1022, 201 USPQ 658, 661 (CCPA 1979) (arguments must first be
presented to the Board before they can be argued on appeal).
Claims 16 and 17
Appellants argue that Kajihara fails to show reading a
frame of image pixel data from a memory in one of two
sequences (Br12): "There is no indication that address
generator 19 operates in other than a conventional manner (see
col. 4, line 63, to col. 5, line 8). Thus, in Kajihara, the
image data is read from buffer memory 15 in one sequence
only."
The Examiner finds (EA7-8) that figures 2A-2D show that
selector 54 of figure 1 can select one of four scan sequences
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