Appeal No. 1997-1304
Application 08/084,345
another. However, Weyl's discussion is in the abstract and
not in the context of any application to pixelmap images in a
data file as claimed. There appears to be no relevance of the
teaching value of Weyl's ability to effectively replicate or
translate images to the portions of Yan that the examiner has
relied upon (Figures 2-6 and column 10) and thus to the
claimed invention of representative independent claim 1 on
appeal. The examiner has also not made a persuasive showing
of such correlation or relevance.
Notwithstanding these considerations, we do not agree
with appellant's characterization that Yan does not deal in
any manner with image copying, and the examiner has not
indicated or apparently appreciated that Yan does teach a
methodology of repeating what may amount to unit image cells.
Column 18 begins a discussion of Yan's so-called “tile method”
of minimizing storage spaces for replicated storage elements
where any given identifiable tile image is repeated in
adjacent or surrounding tiles to form a supertile of an image
which will be operated upon to achieve the overall approach of
textured imaging to the viewer by the circuitry of Figure 11.
The examiner has therefore not correlated any teaching value
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