Appeal No. 1998-0629
Application 08/234,525
the bottom to the top of the character space" (col. 24,
lines 5-7), which is clearly not the same as normalizing the
height according to a standard value.
The Examiner stated that "Wilber does teach that
'character attributes are normalized using an attribute value
standard or the like' [at col. 3, line 66 to col. 4, line 3]"
(FR3). Appellants note that this passage has nothing to do
with generation or use of an attribute value standard for
generating a set of normalized attribute values, but rather is
describing a technique to compensate for shear (Br14-16). The
Examiner responds that the argument is not persuasive since no
histogram is claimed (EA3).
Appellants' response to the Examiner's assertion is
correct. The histograms are used to determine orientation to
correct for shear, not as frequency distributions to determine
an attribute value standard to be utilized to normalize
attribute values.
For these reasons, the Examiner erred in finding that
Wilber teaches the steps of "determining from said set of
attribute values a selected value to be used as an attribute
value standard" and "generating for said sequence of
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