Appeal No. 1997-4461
Application 08/482893
Yasuda stores each of these portions in a separate register
(50, 52, 54 and 56) for calculation of equation (1). We fail
to see how the information stored in Yasuda’s registers can be
considered to be a comparison of successive scan signals or a
detection of matching portions of the compared scans. The
Yasuda device does not have overlapping portions so that there
is no need to look for matching portions of successive scans
in order to reconstruct the bar coded symbol. As noted above,
Yasuda achieves the same result as the claimed invention but
Yasuda gets there by an entirely different procedure which
does not suggest the specific method and means of the claimed
invention.
For these reasons, we agree with appellants that the
scanner apparatus of claim 49 and the scanner method of claim
56
are neither taught nor suggested by the scanner of Yasuda.
Accordingly, the decision of the examiner rejecting claims 49-
61 is reversed.
REVERSED
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