Appeal No. 1998-0882
Application 08/598,416
person of ordinary skill in the art at the time the
invention was made to configure Matsumoto’s system
as claimed by using only processor 212 to perform
the process. [Answer-page 3.]
Appellants argue that several portions of Matsumoto,
cited by the Examiner, “fails to disclose even the slightest
scintilla” of that which is claimed by Appellants. Further,
Appellants contend, “that absolutely nothing within this cited
portion of Matsumoto has anything to do with” what is being
claimed.
We agree with Appellants. Matsumoto, at column 7,
lines 32-45 (answer-page 3), deals with Format Translator 216
to convert memory addresses for a piece of graphics data from
a VGA format to a format accessible to GSP 212. We fail to
see how this teaches the claimed “a first means for
transferring image pixel data from a memory to a temporary
storage a portion of image pixel data at a time.” (Emphasis
added.)
Similarly, we fail to see how Matsumoto, column 9,
lines 29-37 (answer-page 3), teaches the claimed “transferring
includes transferring a portion of image pixel data while the
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