Appeal No. 2002-1705
Application 09/132,751
segmentation system of the implement embodiment in column 5, line
45, through column 7, line 28. Cullen teaches compression of the
bit-mapped representation in column 7, line 29, through column 8,
line 50. Cullen teaches run length extraction and classification
in column 8, line 51, through column 10, line 41. Cullen teaches
rectangular construction and initial classification in column 10,
line 42, through column 14, line 51. Cullen teaches skew
detection in column 14, line 52, through column 16, line 26.
Cullen teaches skew angle correction of the constructed
rectangles in column 16, line 28 through column 17, line 46.
Finally, Cullen teaches verification of rectangle classification
in column 17, line 48 through column 21, line 4.
From a careful reading of Cullen, we find that Cullen is
determining skew, correction of skew, classifying and merging.
We fail to find that Cullen teaches shifting each dot of a dot
image formed by a rasterized block according to a set of pre-
stored correction values as recited in Appellant’s claims 1
through 4. Furthermore, we fail to find that Cullen teaches
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