Appeal No. 2002-1735 Page 3
Application No. 08/903,878
A further understanding of the invention can be achieved by reading the following
claim.
9. A printer comprising:
a buffer memory possessing a fixed image-data storage capacity
smaller than a quantity of image data representing one frame of an image,
said buffer memory temporarily storing the image data;
a printing controller for reading out the image data that has been
stored in said buffer memory and printing an image, which is represented
by the image data read out, at a constant speed; and
a storage controller for storing applied image data in said buffer
memory, the image data being stored in said buffer memory so that said
buffer memory is not emptied, irrespective of being read out for printing at
the constant speed.
Claims 1, 8-10, 17, 18, and 39-41 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, ¶ 2, as
indefinite. Claims 9, 18, and 41 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as obvious
over U.S. Patent No. 5,619,623 ("Takayanagi") and U.S. Patent No. 5,654,804
("Hattori"). Claims 1, 4-6, 8, 10, 13-15, 17 and 39-40 stand rejected under § 103(a) as
obvious over Takayanagi, U.S. Patent No. 5,710,587 ("Suzuki"), and Hattori. Claims 2-
3, 7, 11-12 and 16 stand rejected under § 103(a) as obvious over Takayanagi, Suzuki,
Hattori, and U.S. Patent No. 5,467,434 ("Hower").
OPINION
Our opinion addresses the rejections in the following order:
• indefiniteness rejection of claims 1, 8-10, 17, 18, and 39-41
• obviousness rejections of claims 1-18 and 39-41.
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