Appeal No. 1999-0587
Application 08/414,803
Appellants' comments in the reply brief at page 2 misstate the language of the
independent claims on appeal by urging that the claimed invention does not require that
the mixing ratio information is not stored within each command and that the drawing
commands only contain mixing ratio selection information. The actual language of each
independent claim on appeal is not so restrictive.
There is no dispute between the examiner and the appellants regarding the claim
read means, mixing circuit and write means of representative claim 1 on appeal. Even a
brief review of Evangelisti and the substance of the abstract at least indicate that these are
taught in this reference. In any event, such is known in the admitted prior art Figure 11 any
way. Figure 1 and Figure 4C of Evangelisti show the sequencer SEQ being fed from the
host computer's data bus where the sequencer SEQ in turn sequences the micro control
memory U in accordance with the sequencing operation commands depicted in Figures
5A-B. These reflect the nature of the operation commands to effect the actual source and
designation pixel operations reflected in Figures 6 through 8, generally noted by the
examiner. The Figure 9 embodiment in Evangelisti shows a modified processing element
(MPE).
The so-called PERAM is a random access memory storing predetermined data
associated within each processing element PE of the various figures of this reference. In
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