Ex parte BELLEGARDA et al. - Page 7
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Appeal No. 1995-3030 Page 7
Application No. 08/073,091
application claims a merging or combining of estimated
likelihoods derived from speech and handwriting inputs, or
claims a combination of input signals from speech and
handwriting transducers, to select a most probable message
that is input to the system." (Appeal Br. at 19.)
Claims 44-55 specify in pertinent part the following
limitations:
a first transducer for converting a user's speech to
a first signal;
a second transducer for converting the user's
handwriting to a second signal; and
...
a first likelihood estimator for generating a first
list comprised of one or more probable messages
conveyed by the informational content of the first
signal;
a second likelihood estimator for generating a
second list comprised of one or more probable
messages conveyed by the information content of the
second signal;
...
a likelihood merger for selectively merging the
first list and the second list to form a third list
....
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