Appeal No. 2002-1457
Application No. 09/047,315
first bitmap indicative of the resolution expected in the
application (col. 6, lines 9-16) and a second bitmap having a
resolution indicative of the output device resolution (col. 6,
lines 20-28). Therefore, as acknowledged by the Examiner,
Eschbach generates the output bitmap having a resolution that is
either the same or lower than the resolution of the output image
device.
Frazier, on the other hand, relates to the method of
resolution transformation method in a laser printer by activating
the laser energy sources at a higher rate to adjust the printer
resolution to the input data resolution (abstract; col. 4, lines
63-68). We also note that although Frazier increases the
resolution of the printer, the increased resolution follows the
resolution of the input data image (col. 9, lines 38-50), for
example, by adjusting the printer resolution from its 300 DPI to
600 DPI in order to accommodate the input data at 600 DPI
resolution. Additionally, what the Examiner refers to as “the
resolution transformation circuitry” (answer, page 10), in fact,
take the resolution of the input image and transforms the rate of
the laser activating pulse per pixel time intervals in order to
adjust the printer resolution to that of the stored input image
(Fig. 14; col. 11, line 67 through col. 12, lines 3).
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