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               The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not    
               written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.    
          Paper No. 29                                                               
                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
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                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                         
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                  
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                                Ex parte YING-WEI LIN                                
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                                Appeal No. 2000-0404                                 
                              Application No. 08/626,433                             
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                                       ON BRIEF                                      
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          Before THOMAS, RUGGIERO, and GROSS, Administrative Patent Judges.          
          GROSS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                        



                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                 
               This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final                
          rejection of claims 1 through 5, 7 through 13, 15 through 19, 21           
          through 26, and 28, which are all of the claims pending in this            
          application.                                                               
               Appellant's invention relates to a system and method for              
          automatically segmenting a document image by classifying each              
          type of imagery within the document with some probability.   The           
          input image signals are classified into a combination of at least          
          three predetermined classes of imagery, and a plurality of non-            
          zero probabilities are produced as a function of the properties            









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