Appeal No. 1998-1110
Application No. 08/391,263
in such a fashion that the new aggregate includes a copy of
more than one (i.e., at least two) picture element or prior
aggregate, respectively.
Nickerson et al. teaches at column 4, lines 14-32
averaging four neighboring data values to obtain a new value
that is moved to a new position, and discarding the old
values. The Examiner concedes that Nickerson et al. does not
disclose parallel aggregation.
Daher teaches at column 8, lines 3-21 image compression
where a copy of one or more picture elements is maintained in
the compressed version of the image. Specifically, Daher
teaches "selecting at least one row from the image data 12 for
inclusion in the resized image data 22, and means 52b for
selecting at least one pixel 14 within each selected row for
inclusion in the resized image data 22." Read in combination
with Figure 4, this language arguably teaches aggregation of
picture elements into first aggregates. Daher certainly
contains no teaching, however, of second means for parallel
aggregation, with second aggregates each including a copy of
more than one first aggregate.
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