Appeal No. 1998-0818
Application No. 08/319,143
the claim." In re Hiniker Co., 150 F.3d 1362, 1369, 47 USPQ2d
1523, 1529 (Fed. Cir. 1998). Claims will be given their
broadest reasonable interpretation consistent with the
specification, and limitations appearing in the specification
are not to be read into the claims. In re Etter, 756 F.2d
852, 858, 225 USPQ 1,
5 (Fed. Cir. 1985).
We find that the scope of claim 13 includes a non-
continuous phase encoded filter and an amplitude encoded
filter having a transmittance function which is statistically
similar to the reciprocal spatial frequency spectrum of the
Fourier transform of the distortion function. This scope is
shown in the following limitations of claim 13: "(b) computer
means for . . . providing said non-continuous phase encoded
filter at said Fourier transform plane" and "(c) computer
means for approximating the amplitude portion of the
reciprocal Fourier transform of the distortion function with
an amplitude encoded filter having a transmittance function
which is statistically similar to the reciprocal spatial
frequency spectrum of the Fourier transform of the distortion
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