Ex parte REDDY et al. - Page 9




          Appeal No. 1997-1197                                                         
          Application 08/130,255                                                       

          as shown in FIG. 2A, and are stored in buffer memory 15                      
          . . . ."  (Col. 7, lines 35-38.)  Because the bits of the                    
          words are output serially beginning with the LSB (e.g.,                      
          col. 6, lines 25-26), the bits are output as, for example,                   
          word 1, bit 0 (LSB or rightmost bit), bit 1, ..., bit 7 (MSB                 
          or leftmost bit), word 2, bit 0, bit 1, etc.  This is a                      
          "sequence" of pixels (bits) as broadly claimed.                              
               "When the 180-degree rotation command is input to                       
          controller 18, the words are read out from the page memory                   
          upon scanning as shown in FIG. 2C."  (Col. 8, lines 15-17.)                  
          The words are read out in inverse order for the 180-degree                   
          rotation than from the 0-degree rotation.  Because the bits of               
          the words are output serially beginning with the LSB, the bits               
          are output in sequence from the LSB of word 200 to the MSB of                
          word 1.  This is a "second sequence different from the first                 
          sequence."                                                                   
               Therefore, the page memory (storing a frame of pixel                    
          data) is selectively read in two different bit (pixel)                       
          sequences.  Note that the rejection relies on the way the data               
          is read out from the page memory before it goes to the circuit               
          of figure 3.  Because the output of Kajihara is word oriented,               

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