Appeal No. 1997-1197
Application 08/130,255
in the art to designate groups of bits in Kajihara as bits for
a pixel as recited in claims 13 and 14 in view of Okazawa's
disclosure that a group of bits may be used to represent a
pixel and the Examiner's finding that it was known in the art
to use groups of three and six bits to represent a pixel.
Claims 13 and 14 do not recite that the individual read bit
sequences must remain the same in the order when the pixel
data is read out in a second sequence; compare claim 19.
Therefore, the rejection of claims 13 and 14 is sustained.
Claim 19 requires an inverse ordering of the sequence of
repeating sub-sequences, which implies that the sub-sequences
must be the same for first and second sequences and that the
bits which make up the sub-sequences must be kept in the same
order. This is not taught by Kajihara which rotates the bits
of the image so that groups of bits do not remain in the same
order. Okazawa also reverses the order of bits within a 3 3
unit. The Examiner has failed to establish a prima facie case
of obviousness with respect to claims 18 and 19. The
rejection of claims 18 and 19 is reversed.
Claims 22-24
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