Appeal No. 1998-0629
Application 08/234,525
the "normalized attribute values" are the attribute values
divided by the attribute value standard. Claim 16 does not
recite how the normalized attribute values are computed, but
it does require use of the attribute value standard in the
normalization process.
The Examiner finds that "Wilber teaches 'producing first
signals corresponding to the image of a character which may
include a pattern to be identified' (col 3, lines 40-42),
which is simply a step of selecting a feature, which may be
expressed as a value (eg, [sic] height in pixels) to use as a
standard, and standardizing means to generate normalized
values for characters (col 3, lines 44-60)" (EA3). The
Examiner previously found that Wilber teaches generating a
standard dimensional value at column 3, lines 38-43, and
normalizing characters at column 3, lines 44-54 (FR6-7).
The "means for producing first signals corresponding to
the image of a character which may include a pattern to be
identified" (col 3, lines 40-42) relied on by the Examiner is
simply a scanner for producing a matrix of column and row
elements representing the image of the character to be
recognized. Claim 16 does not require scanning; the claimed
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