Appeal No. 1998-1110
Application No. 08/391,263
wise compression of image data . . . where a copy of one or
more original picture elements is maintained in the first
compression means." The Examiner asserts that Appellants'
disclosure teaches the conventional nature of subsets
containing data items that are identical to items in the set
from which the subset is formed.
As pointed out by our reviewing court, we must first
determine the scope of the claim. "[T]he name of the game is
the claim." In re Hiniker Co., 150 F.3d 1362, 1369, 47 USPQ2d
1523, 1529 (Fed. Cir. 1998).
Turning first to Appellants' claim 1, we note that the
claim recites a device for transforming a first representation
of an
information pattern made up of a plurality of picture elements
into a second representation of the information pattern, the
device comprising: first means for parallel aggregation of
selected ones of the picture elements into first aggregates,
each first aggregate including a copy of more than one of the
picture elements; and second means for parallel aggregation of
the first aggregates into second aggregates, these second
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