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, - 9 -Page: Previous 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007