Appeal No. 96-0215
Application 07/975,908
Appellants argue on page 8 of the brief that Appellants
disclose on pages 3 and 4 of the specification that the notable
feature of their invention is to exchange positions of input
scenery and the filter set. The specification further teaches
that unlike the prior art which provides a display of the input
scene on a monitor for projection onto a set of feature extrac-
tion vectors realized as amplitude modulated LCTC devices or
lithographically prepared masks, the Appellants' invention
provides the filter set as input to the system and correspond-
ingly places the sequence data in the filter plane of the system,
relying on the commutativity of projection to allow this role
reversal. Appellants argue that the prior art is dealing with
providing capabilities for filtering a freely varying input scene
while their invention is designed to facilitate flexible queries
of a large, but unchanging, database of data, e.g. DNA sequences.
Appellants argue that placing the filter bank in the input plane
provides a relatively low space-bandwidth product, but can be
reconfigured to present a variety of filters in accordance with
investigators needs and as indicated by the results of earlier
queries. Appellants further state that this configuration allows
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