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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 18
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte RICHARD H. BENEAR and JAMES R. NOTTINGHAM
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Appeal No. 2001-1337
Application No. 08/864,944
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ON BRIEF
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Before JERRY SMITH, LALL, and GROSS, Administrative Patent Judges.
LALL, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from
the Examiner's final rejection of claims 1-4 and 6-20. Claim 5
has been canceled.
According to Appellants (brief at page 2 and 3), the
disclosed invention is directed to a method and apparatus which
enhances a color raster image in a printer by identifying a
working pixel in the raster image for anti-aliasing (edge
smoothing), and then modifying luminance data of the working
pixel in a luminance chrominance color space such that an anti-
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