Appeal No. 2000-2067
Application No. 08/859,278
terms of features from a group consisting of scaling (702),
density control (703), background detection (703), edge detection
(704) and error diffusion (706). See Appellants’ specification
pages 9-11, and Figure 7.
Independent claim 1 present in the application is reproduced
as follows:
1. An image processing system to receive and
process scanned information from a scanner, comprising:
a central processing unit to control the scanning of
said scanner and the transmission of said scanned
information,
an image processor dedicated to process said
scanned image information in terms of features from a
group consisting of scaling, density control,
background detection, edge detection, error diffusion,
an image storage device connected only to said
image processor to store any pre-processed and
processed image information,
wherein said pre-processed and said processed image
information can be selected between storing in a computer
and sending to a printer for printout.
References
The references relied on by the Examiner are as follows:
Enoki et al. 4,885,223 Dec. 05, 1989
(Enoki)
Miller et al. 5,014,333 May 07, 1991
(Miller)
Kawamata et al. 4,989,163 Jan. 29, 1991
(Kawamata)
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