Appeal No. 1999-0587
Application 08/414,803
color data stores 4, 5, and 6, the color proportions being effectively “commanded” or
selected by the control data stored in the alpha store 7. The discussion of this operation is
more explicit at column 3.
Thus, we are unpersuaded by appellants' brief and reply brief that the applied prior
art does not teach or suggest that a drawing command may include information relating to
the selectability of particular ratios or proportions of features associated with pixel
information to be operated upon.
Finally, because both references teach in their own way that command information
may in effect identify whether a fully transparent or a fully opaque mixing operation will be
performed upon pixels read from a buffer memory before being operated upon and placed
back into memory, we remand this application to the examiner to reconsider the
application of the applied prior art to the other claims that have been deemed to be
allowable at page 2 of the answer as noted earlier in this opinion.
In conclusion, the decision of the examiner rejecting claims 1, 9 and 13 is affirmed
and this application is remanded to the examiner for further proceedings consistent with
this opinion.
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