Appeal No. 1998-0688
Application 08/274,158
document covering surface.” Additionally, the document cover
surface has a “regular reflectance of from 1.5% to 20%” and a
“relative intensity of irregularly reflected light as received
by said image sensor of from N4 to N8.5 in terms of lightness
in the Munsell color system.”
We find that Nezu in col. 7, lines 22 through 24
discloses that the surface of the document cover is light blue
which has low reflectivity only with respect to radiation of
red to orange light. However, Nezu is silent with regard to
an achromatic document cover surface having a regular
reflectance of 1.5% to 20% and an irregular reflectance
intensity of N4 to N8.5 in the Munsell color system as recited
in Appellant’s independent claims 1 and 10. We further find
that Yuse ‘265 and Yuse ‘266 on page 8 do specify some kind of
grey for the surface of document cover. However, we find that
neither Yuse ‘265 nor Yuse ‘266 requires any limits for the
reflectance of the cover surface, and in particular, the
regular reflectance of 1.5% to 20% and the irregular
reflectance intensity of N4 to N8.5 as recited in Appellant’s
claims 1 and 10. We note that claims 22 through 24 and claims
25 through 27 depend from claims 1 and 10 respectively.
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