Appeal No. 2000-0238
Application 08/342,283
favor of a divisional application; this amendment was entered
according to the examiner’s communication mailed on September 6,
2001.
Claim 15 is reproduced below:
15. An apparatus for processing binary image pixels in an
image represented by a plurality of rasters of binary image
pixels, each representing the binary state of a single pixel
within the image, to identify regions exhibiting a particular,
unique binary pixel structure therein, comprising:
an image source for producing a document image having a
plurality of binary image pixels therein, each pixel represented
by a binary density signal;
memory for storing at least a portion of the binary density
signals representing a region of the document image in a data
buffer; and
a segmentation circuit employing template-matching filters
to identify the presence of the particular, unique binary pixel
structure in the region of the image stored in said memory, the
segmentation circuit further comprising a logic filter for
removing the particular, unique binary pixel structure from the
region of the image stored in said memory to produce an output
image substantially void of the particular, unique binary pixel
structure.
The following reference is relied on by the examiner:
Matsunawa et al. (Matsunawa) 4,741,046 Apr.
26, 1988
Claims 15-18, 20 and 21 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
102(b) as being anticipated by Matsunawa.
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