Appeal No. 95-0175
Application 07/894,147
movement of the stylus pen in the "up" state to the
exterior of a character box 17 is regarded as being
completion of writing of one character, thus cutting
out such individuals characters in one-by-one fashion.
The above-quoted written description reveals that the appellants
were in possession of the subject matter of sensing the shape of
inscribed characters. Note that the position of the pen before
it is lifted is detected in terms of x and y coordinate values.
That the specification refers to circuitry which detects the
position of the stylus pen as a "character cut-out portion" does
not detract from its sufficiently supporting the term "sensor" as
is broadly claimed by the appellants.
In the specification at page 10, it is stated:
The character recognition portion 5 recognizes the
cut-out hand-written character pattern and extracts a
plurality of candidate characters having configurations
similar to that of the recognized hand-written
character pattern, and stores in the recognition result
memory 6 the codes corresponding to these candidate
characters in the order of closeness of similarity.
* * *
. . . More specifically, the writing of the image data
is conducted such that a standard character pattern
corresponding to the first candidate character
exhibiting the highest degree of similarity is written
in an area in the frame memory 8 corresponding to the
character box 17, and that standard character patterns
corresponding to the plurality of candidate characters
are stored in later-mentioned candidate character boxes
provided in the window memory 9.
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