Appeal No. 95-4730
Application No. 08/061,495
The examiner offers Fujisaki to show a handwriting
transducer responsive to a handwriting input for outputting
time ordered stroke information and establishing a first list
of at least one probable character that the time ordered
stroke information is intended to represent. The examiner
then offers Holt as disclosing a character recognition system
which forms
static representations of on-line handwritten input in order
to extract characteristic data. This much is not disputed by
appellants.
However, the examiner recognizes that even though
Fujisaki and Holt are evidence of individually forming,
respectively, time ordered stroke information (dynamic) and
static representations of handwritten input, the instant
claims also require a merging of the two lists provided by
these systems. Therefore, the examiner relies on Tyburski as
a linking reference, ostensibly for the proposition that “it
has long been recognized in the art of character recognition
that the combination of complementary recognition algorithms
can achieve improved accuracy results” [answer-page 4].
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