Appeal No. 1998-1389 Page 2
Application No. 08/553232
BACKGROUND
Appellants' invention relates to a structured image
format for describing complex color raster images. An
understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading
of exemplary claim 30, which is reproduced as follows:
30. An electronic image generator, comprising:
a constructing module capable of constructing and
displaying a representation, said representation comprising
data that can be rendered as a raster and a pasteboard having
at least one image attribute, said pasteboard representing a
frame onto which said data is rendered, wherein said
constructing module is capable of forming and modifying said
representation in accordance with the at least one image
attribute of said pasteboard; and
a rendering module in communication with said
constructing module, the rendering module capable of rendering
the representation into a raster.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Smith et al. (Smith) 5,181,162 Jan. 19,
1993
Brotsky et al. (Brotsky) 5,490,246 Feb.
6, 1996
(Effectively filed: Aug. 13, 1991)
Claims 49 and 51 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e)
as being anticipated by Brotsky.
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