Appeal No. 2003-0434
Application No. 09/277,954
Claim 1 is the only independent claim on appeal, and it
reads as follows:
1. A method for character recognition for a character
recognition system having a reading memory, a working memory, an
entry device and a recognition device, with said method including
the steps of: storing a dataset of memory character sequences in
the reading memory; transferring the character sequences from the
reading memory into the working memory in a serial manner; in the
recognition device, deriving an association of an entered-
character sequence provided by the entry device with one of the
transmitted memory character sequences by the linking of the
supplied entered-character sequence with the contents of the
working memory; and, wherein the stored character sequences are
represented in a hierarchical branched structure having a
plurality of branch levels, and, said step of transferring the
character sequence data of the dataset includes transmitting the
partial data of successive structural branch levels one after
another over time, and causing the recognition device to already
receive the possible linking of a possibly-present entered-
character sequence having the still-incomplete contents of the
working memory before the transfer of the entire dataset is
complete.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Nozaki et al. (Nozaki) 5,835,635 Nov. 10, 1998
Yoshii et al. (Yoshii) 5,982,933 Nov. 9, 1999
(filed Dec. 31, 1996)
Claims 1 through 8 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e)
as being anticipated by Nozaki.
Claims 9 and 10 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Nozaki in view of Yoshii.
Reference is made to the briefs (paper numbers 12 and 14)
and the answer (paper number 13) for the respective positions of
the appellants and the examiner.
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