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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