Appeal No. 2003-1514 Page 6
Application No. 09/180,038
have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art at the time of appellants’ invention.
Accordingly, we shall not sustain the examiner’s rejection of claim 1 or claims 2-10
which depend therefrom.
We turn next to the examiner’s rejection of claims 11-15 as being anticipated by
Bay. Each of independent claims 11, 13 and 15 recites, inter alia, paper sheet side
edge detecting means for detecting the positions of the two side edges of the paper
sheet which are parallel with a paper sheet moving direction. Claim 11 further recites
image area detection means for obtaining information about an area of an image by
checking positions of image points that are most away from the origin of the image
respectively in the paper sheet moving direction and in the direction perpendicular to
the paper sheet moving direction.
Bay discloses apparatus for cutting a paper or foil web into variously sized
rectangles, such as the German Industrial Standard (DIN) formats A0, A2, A3 and A4.
Such cutting requires both longitudinal and transverse cuts and involves some diversion
of scrap segments 23. The cutting apparatus includes a transverse cutter 9 and a
plurality of longitudinal cutting units 26, which are selectively actuated only if the form
calls for a longitudinal cut. The paper web to be cut is provided with a plurality of codes
20 containing a series of stripes or fields 29, 30 (see Figure 6) which are colored either
black or white to convey command information associated with the transverse cutter,
longitudinal cutting units and deflectors (for deflecting cut scrap segments). For
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