Appeal No. 96-3248
Application 08/022,347
This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134
from the examiner's final rejection of claims 9, 10, 12 and 21-
23. Claim 11 has been cancelled. Claims 1-8 and 13-20 stand
withdrawn from consideration as being directed to a nonelected
invention.
The claimed invention pertains to a method for storing
the membership functions of inference operations in the memories
within a fuzzy logic electronic controller.
Representative claim 9 is reproduced as follows:
9. A method of operating memories of a fuzzy logic
electronic controller, comprising the steps of:
performing inference operations on membership functions
of logic variables, said inference operations configured as IF-
THEN rules, each rule including at least one front preposition
and at least one rear implication;
storing membership functions of each logic variable of
the front preposition of each rule in a respective storage
module; and
storing membership functions of the rear implication of
each rule in a single storage module, wherein the membership
functions of the rear implication are stored as a plurality of
memory words, each memory word including two discrete terms for
calculating a center of gravity.
The examiner relies on the following reference:
Nakano 5,261,036 Nov. 09, 1993
(filed Nov. 25, 1992)
Claims 9, 10, 12 and 21-23 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(e) as being anticipated by the disclosure of Nakano.
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