Ex parte SUTHA et al. - Page 7




          Appeal No. 1998-1110                                                        
          Application No. 08/391,263                                                  


          aggregates including a copy of more than one of the first                   
          aggregates. (Emphasis added).  Appellant discloses at page 5,               
          lines 27 to 29 that "[t]he first and second mechanisms for                  
          parallel aggregation . . . include a parallel data processor                
          having a plurality of substantially identical cells for                     
          processing digital data signals."  Appellant discloses at page              
          18, last line, to page 19, line 7 that "[t]he actual                        
          implementation for compressing 32 rows of image data into 16                
          rows begins with concurrent construction of 16 subimages, each              
          containing one row as shown in Fig. 13(b).  The process                     
          continues with concurrent construction of multiple subimages,               
          each containing 2 rows and then 4 rows and then 8 rows, as                  
          shown in Figs. 13(c)-(e), respectively.  As the number of rows              
          in each subimage increases, the number of the subimages                     
          decreases, until the process results in only one subimage, as               
          shown in Fig. 13(f)."                                                       
          Thus, the claimed "first aggregate" may be seen, for                        
          example, in Fig. 13(c) as comprising the set of picture                     
          elements {2,4}, or {6,8}, etc.  Such a "first aggregate"                    
          includes a copy of more than one of the picture elements, e.g.              


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