Appeal No. 95-0175
Application 07/894,147
answer, however, the reference to Sugiyama is replaced with
Aguro. Thus, claim 3 stands finally rejected over Togawa, Aguro,
Hernandez and Sklarew. Claim 3 depends from claim 2 and claim 2
depends from claim 1.
In the final Office action (Paper No. 7), claim 5 was
finally rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Togawa, Sugiyama or Aguro, Hernandez and Yoshikawa. In the
examiner’s answer, however, all references to Sugiyama were
removed. Thus, claim 5 stands finally rejected over Togawa,
Aguro, Hernandez and Yoshikawa. Claim 5 depends from claim 2
which depends from claim 1.
In the examiner’s answer, a new ground of rejection was
applied. Specifically, claims 9, 14, and 15-17 were rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Togawa, Aguro,
Hernandez and Kaplan. Claim 9 depends from claim 6 and claim 14
depends from claim 10.
The Invention
The invention is directed to a hand-written character entry
and recognition apparatus and method. According to the
specification, it provides the desired recognition result without
requiring frequent turning of the operator’s eyes or frequent
movement of the position of a pointing device away from the
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