Appeal No. 2006-2363
Application No. 10/015,880
crosshatch halftones across at least a part of the digital image
which does not represent any actual feature (specification, page
4).
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A method of producing a sampled image comprising the
steps of:
providing a plurality of sensor positions in a row
arrangement non-uniformly distributed with varying distances
between each adjacent pair of sensor positions determined
according to a first predictable deterministic schema; and
selectively sampling an image by sequentially exposing image
portions to said row arrangement according to a second
predictable deterministic schema such that each sensor position
is sampled in a non-uniformly varying spatial manner to obtain a
first set of data samples representing non-uniformly spaced
points in said image.
The Examiner relies on the following references in rejecting
the claims:
Resnikoff et al. (Resnikoff) 4,574,311 Mar. 4, 1986
Tom Balph (Balph), ALFSR Counters implement binary polynomial
generators,@ May 21, 1998, EDN-Design Feature,
http://edn.com/archives/1998/052198/11df_0.6htm.
Claims 2-4, 6-8, 12, 13, 19 and 20 stand rejected under the
second paragraph of 35 U.S.C. ' 112 as being indefinite for
having limitations without antecedent basis in the base claim.1
1 The rejection of claims 9 and 14 under the first and second
paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. ' 112 is withdrawn by the Examiner (answer, page 4).
2
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