The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written
for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 11
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte PETER RUDAK and ANDREAS E. SAVAKIS
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Appeal No. 1998-3393
Application No. 08/763,268
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ON BRIEF
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Before RUGGIERO, GROSS and BARRY, Administrative Patent Judges.
RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on the appeal from the final rejection
of claims 1-8, all of the claims pending in the present
application.
The claimed invention relates to a method of generating an
M-bit gray scale image from an N-bit gray scale image, where
1—M—N. For each pixel in the N-bit image, an image threshold is
determined based on neighboring pixel values for generating the
most significant bit (MSB) of the M-bit image. Thresholds for
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