Appeal No. 1998-0634
Application 08/455,667
We have carefully studied Abe, the Examiner's rejection,
and Appellant's arguments, and find ourselves in complete
agreement with all of Appellant's arguments, not just those
dealing with the correlation detecting means. We adopt
Appellant's reasons why the Examiner errs as our own. Abe
does not disclose detecting the degree of correlation between
a plurality of units each consisting of a plurality of pixels.
Appellant correctly finds (Br7-8) that Abe selects an
interpolation data table stored in one of the ROMs 401-404 in
figure 55 based on keyboard input from a human operator or by
machine scanning "to check the characteristics" of the
original document. Abe does not disclose what
"characteristic" is checked and does not disclose that the
characteristic is the degree of correlation between a
plurality of multi-pixel units. The fact that Abe contains
the word "correlation" (e.g., at col. 22, lines 7 and 11) does
not teach that the correlation is between a plurality of
multi-pixel units. Because Abe does not disclose a
"correlation detecting means for detecting degree of
correlation," it can not anticipate the further limitation of
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