Appeal No. 1998-0940
Application No. 08/085,605
Appellant points out, in the reply brief, very specific
claimed elements which are not taught or suggested by the
references. With regard to claim 4, it is required that the
bit-mapped field is interpolated, in real time, to a “second”
resolution higher than a first resolution and that some of the
claimed steps are repeated for a different set of image data to
generate a second bit-mapped field of image data for recording on
a second image frame and inputting the second bit-mapped field
into the same frame-store used for storing the first bit-mapped
field “while” performing the steps of outputting the bit-mapped
field from the frame-store to an interpolator, interpolating the
bit-mapped field in real time to a second resolution higher than
the first resolution and exposing the first image of an image
sensitive media with the interpolated bit-mapped field.
While Shimura teaches different resolutions based on memory
space, it does not disclose the simultaneous writing to a single
frame-store memory of one image frame of data “while” reading a
prior image frame’s data out of that same memory, and then
interpolating the data and printing. With regard to Kadowaki,
appellant points out that this reference discloses the storing of
color separation data by first clearing a full page image memory
and that color separation data for one page is input into one of
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