Appeal No. 1997-1304
Application 08/084,345
Representative claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A method of selectively repeating a unit image cell
in a pixelmap image datafile comprising a grid of pixel
locations, the method comprising the steps of:
a. defining the unit image cell by specifying a bounded
region of pixels to be copied;
b. defining an origin point on the grid;
c. defining two cartesian placement vectors such that at
least one placement vector is oriented vertically or
horizontally and the other diverges therefrom by an angle
equal to or less than 90E;
c.[d.] generating linear combinations of the placement
vectors that collectively specify a set of copying locations
in the pixelmap relative to the origin point; and
d.[e.] sequentially copying the unit image cell into the
pixelmap datafile such that a predetermined location within
the copied cell coincides with pixel [sic] specified by each
said linear combination of placement vectors.
The following references are relied on by the examiner:
Yan et al. (Yan) 4,615,013 Sep. 30, 1986
Weyl, Symmetry, “Ornamental Symmetry” pp. 83-1132
There appears to be no identifiable date as to this reference.2
It appears that it was originally supplied to the Office to be considered
as prior art as part of the submission on June 28, 1993 in appellant's prior
art statement of that date. Therefore, for purposes of its use as applied
prior art within 35 U.S.C. § 103, appellant appears to have admitted by the
submission that it was prior art to him.
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