Appeal No. 2002-1705
Application 09/132,751
American Hoist & Derrick Co., 730 F.2d 1452, 1458, 221 USPQ 481,
485 (Fed. Cir. 1984).
Appellant argues that Cullen fails to teach “shifting each
dot of the dot image formed by the rasterized block according to
a set of pre-stored correction values” as recited in Appellant’s
claim 1. See page 12 of the appeal brief. Appellant argues that
Cullen does not teach “producing a set of correction values for
correcting the vertical alignment error” and “modifying said each
block scanned in accordance with the stored correction values” as
recited in Appellant’s claim 5. See pages 17 through 19 of the
appeal brief.
The Examiner argues that Cullen does teach shifting each dot
of the dot image formed by the rasterized block according to a
set of pre-stored correction values as recited in Appellant’s
claim 1. In particular, the Examiner argues that Cullen teaches
that shifting is performed by sorting bit-mapped scan lines
within rectangles to merge with other rectangles so that skewing
to be corrected. The Examiner points to column 6, lines 35
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