Appeal No. 2000-0238
Application 08/342,283
output image substantially void of the particular, unique binary
pixel structure” is disclosed or otherwise taught in Matsunawa.
This removing operation of independent claim 15 on appeal is
consistent with the showing disclosed in Figures 2 and 3.
As to Matsunawa, this reference continually discusses its
ability to discriminate, sort and extract patterns of information
from an original image or picture. Although these terms are used
in the reference to describe in effect an identification
operation in accordance with the subject matter of claim 15 on
appeal, each
of them falls short of actually removing an identified region to
produce an output image substantially void of that region.
In other words, no discriminated, sorted or extracted region is
removed according to the teachings of Matsunawa. The
identifiable character information in regions 1 and 2 and the
identified continuous tone information in regions 3 and 4 of the
original picture in Figure 14 remain in the pattern sorted
picture version in Figure 15 as well as in the resulting picture
of the extracted regions in Figure 16.
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