Appeal No. 2001-2005
Application 08/893,024
a block conversion coder for block conversion coding said
block units to generate coded data as a function of said block
number information and said color field information.
The following references are relied on by the examiner:
Oguro 5,349,384 Sep. 20, 1994
(filing date Dec. 30, 1992)
Montgomery et al.
(Montgomery) 5,831,679 Nov. 3, 1998
(effective filing date Sept. 18, 1992)
Claims 10-15 and 17-22 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner relies upon Oguro in
view of Montgomery.
Rather than repeat the positions of the appellant and the
examiner, reference is made to the briefs, the final rejection,
the advisory action and the answer for the respect details
thereof.
OPINION
We reverse.
At the outset, we note that apparatus independent claim 10
mirrors the subject matter of method independent claim 17. Based
upon the arguments presented to us, the only dispute relates to
the feature of these claims relating to the color field
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