Appeal No. 1998-0629
Application 08/234,525
characters a set of normalized attribute values using said set
of attribute values and said attribute value standard." The
rejection of claims 16 and 37 is reversed.
Claims 1-15, 17-36, and 38-43
Claim 22 is the apparatus counterpart of method claim 1.
Claim 1 is analyzed as representative.
Appellants argue (Br21) that Wilber, at the very least,
fails to disclose or suggest the step of "generating a
standard dimensional value determined from a frequency
distribution of a selected one of said character dimensional
characteristics" or the step of "generating . . . a set of
normalized values determined from said standard dimensional
value, said normalized values corresponding to said one or
more character dimensional characteristics." Appellants agree
with the Examiner's statement that "[i]t is extremely
well-known to determine a most-commonly occurring value of a
feature from a frequency distribution or histogram" (Paper
No. 5, p. 4), but argue that the character recognition subject
matter of claim 1 is not rendered obvious over this broad
proposition.
The Examiner previously stated (Paper No. 5, p. 3):
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