Appeal No. 95-3270
Application 08/080,689
18. In a self-contained portable typewriting unit: a
case, a keyboard panel mounted on the case and having a plurality
of characters printed thereon in optically readable form, a mouse
movable about the keyboard panel and having means for visually
aligning the mouse with a selected one of the characters, means
for holding the mouse in a fixed position relative to the charac-
ter with which it has been aligned, means coupled to the mouse
for optically scanning the selected character and providing
electrical signals which describe the character as a bit map, a
printer mounted in the case and forming an integral part of the
unit for producing visual images on an output medium by selective
actuation of elements arranged in a matrix, and means responsive
to the electrical signals for actuating the elements in the
matrix in accordance with the bit map to form an image of the
character with which the mouse is aligned.
37. In a typewriting method utilizing a keyboard panel
having a plurality of characters printed thereon in optically
readable form, the steps of: visually positioning a mouse in
alignment with a selected one of the printed characters, tempo-
rarily locking the mouse in a fixed position relative to the
selected character, optically scanning the printed character with
which the mouse is aligned and providing electrical signals which
describe the scanned character as a bit map, and actuating a
matrix printer in accordance with the bit map to form an image
of the character with which the mouse is aligned.
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied
the documents listed below:
Toyoda 4,626,925 Dec. 2, 1986
Johnson 4,722,621 Feb. 2, 1988
Bennett et al. (Bennett) 5,051,736 Sep. 24, 1991
The following rejections are before us for review.
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