Appeal No. 2002-1657
Application No. 09/134,981
which is fed to a sewing device for stitching the embroidery
design.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the invention and reads as follows:
1. A system for automatically producing an embroidery
design, the system comprising:
a) means for inputting an embroidery pattern into an image
data file, the image data file comprising a plurality of pixels,
each pixel comprising a bitmap representing a color;
b) processing means operatively connected to said inputting
means for creating skeletal and edge contour data and storing said
image data file; and
c) an embroidery data generating mechanism operatively
connected to said processing means for labeling and interrelating
said skeletal and edge contour data and generating a complex
embroidery pattern directly from a scanned, color image.
The Examiner relies on the following prior art:
Futamura 5,740,056 Apr. 14, 1998
Claims 1-9 and 11-20, all of the appealed claims, stand
rejected 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as being anticipated by Futamura.
Rather than reiterate the arguments of Appellant and the
Examiner, reference is made to the Briefs1 and Answer for the
respective details.
1 The Appeal Brief was filed August 20, 2001 (Paper No. 10). In
response to the Examiner’s Answer dated October 2, 2001 (Paper No. 11), a
Reply Brief was filed January 29, 2002 (Paper No. 12), which was acknowledged
and entered by the Examiner as indicated in the communication dated February
19, 2002 (Paper No. 13).
2
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