Appeal No. 2005-0444
Application No. 10/025,671
pixels along a direction perpendicular to the edge, the system
comprising:
a decompressor that decompresses a data bitword-map to
provide high spatial resolution data containing non-
continuous tone data using extra resolution in a direction
substantially perpendicular to an edge of marks, and that
decompresses the data bitword-map to provide low spatial
resolution continuous tone data.
The Examiner relies on the following references in rejecting
the claims:
Hyatt 5,487,172 Jan. 23, 1996
Honma et al. (Honma) 5,774,634 Jun. 30, 1998
Shannon et al. (Shannon) 6,026,196 Feb. 15, 2000
(filed Oct. 15, 1997)
Hsu et al. (Hsu) 6,389,176 May 14, 2002
(filed Sep. 25, 1998)
Appellant’s admitted prior art (APA), “Description of
Related Art” in Appellant’s specification, page 1, lines 14-25.
Claims 1-6, 8 and 9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being unpatentable over Honma, Hsu and Hyatt.
Claims 13, 14 and 18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being unpatentable over Shannon and Hyatt.
Claims 15-17 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Honma, APA and Hyatt.
We make reference to the answer (Paper No. 25, mailed May 5
2004) and the final rejection (Paper No. 22, mailed September 24,
2003) for the Examiner’s reasoning and to the appeal brief (Paper
No. 24, filed February 18, 2004) and the reply brief (Paper No.
26, filed June 15, 2004) for Appellant’s arguments thereagainst.
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