Appeal No. 95-1217
Application 08/039,674
class, each class being a known pattern that the system is
looking to identify. See col. 3, lines 33-35, 47-49. The
"neural networks operate in parallel and as a whole configure
a single neural network system." See col. 3, lines 49-51.
Each of the neural networks NET judges whether the input
i
feature vector belongs to the class C , see col. 3, lines 62-
i
65, and outputs the probability that the feature vector
belongs to that class.
See col. 4, lines 4-8. The judgment unit 14 then judges which
of the classes is likely to be the correct class, based on the
probability data output from the neural networks, and outputs
a result. See col. 4, lines 11-21.
The rejection of claims 1 through 6 turns on how the term
"distinct" in claim 1 is interpreted. During patent
prosecution, claims must be given their broadest reasonable
interpretation. See In re Morris, 127 F.3d 1048, 1054-55, 44
USPQ2d 1023, 1027-29
(Fed. Cir. 1997). The first place to look when interpreting a
patent claim is the words of the claim themselves. See
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