Appeal No. 1999-2315 Application No. 08/742,432 The examiner rejects each of independent claims 1, 11 and 13 based on the teachings of Shinohara and Kajiwara. With respect to claim 1, the examiner finds that Shinohara teaches the claimed invention except for the steps which relate to a one-dimensional strip. The examiner cites Kajiwara as teaching the conversion of a two-dimensional window of an object image into a one-dimensional strip of the object image. The examiner finds that it would have been obvious to the artisan to use the teachings of -6-Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007