Appeal No. 94-3823
Application 07/812,249
geometries of the characters, and a second character recognition
system which views the color that is coded within the characters.
Claim 1 is representative of the invention and is reproduced
below:
1. A method of recognizing a color coded character,
wherein said character comprises plural pixels which
are of a first color, said first color pixels being
predominate so as to allow humans to distinguish said
character and a small amount of a second color
associated with said character, said second color being
non-predominate so as to be non-distracting to humans,
but distinguishable by a color scanner, comprising the
steps of:
processing said character in a first processing step
by an optical character recognition means selected
from an optical character recognition group consisting
of geometric optical character recognition and non-
predominate color coded optical character recognition;
and
processing said character in a second processing
step by an optical character recognition means from
said optical character recognition group not selected
in said first processing step.
Opinion
We do not sustain the four rejections entered by the
examiner in this case. This decision is based solely on the
rationales as articulated by the examiner.
Enablement rejection
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