Appeal No. 1997-1197
Application 08/130,255
and that figure 5 shows that selector 16 of figure 3 can
select one of four scan sequences. In response to Appellants'
argument that reliance on figure 1 is a new argument (RBr2-4),
the Examiner states that he does not rely on figure 1 (Paper
No. 15, page 2).
While the Examiner's rejection does little more than find
that an image rotation generally takes place without
addressing particularly how the claim limitations read on the
complicated circuit of Kajihara, we nevertheless find that
Kajihara anticipates claim 16. Specifically, we rely on the
"output raster scan mode" wherein an image is read out from
the page memory in accordance with a designated rotation angle
as shown in figures 2A-2D and the rotated image data is
subjected to rotation processing (col. 7, lines 16-25). The
page memory is not shown in figure 3, but is described as the
source of image data for the circuit. The page memory
corresponds to the claimed "frame of pixel data" (as admitted
by Appellants at Br16, lines 1-2; RBr8).
Consider the cases of 0-degree and 180-degree rotation.
"When the 0-degree rotation command is input, words at
addresses 0 [sic, 1] to 40 are read out from the page memory,
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