Appeal No. 95-5009
Application 08/162,367
The claim term “font table” is defined in the
specification as “a matrix of patterns organized in such a way
that the alphanumeric characters and other symbols in a specific
style of font or type face are correlated with specific locations
or ‘slots’ for those symbols.” Specification at 12-13.
The claim term “signals forming an image” refers to “a
sequence of light and dark portions which can be thought of as
equivalent to pixels.” Specification at 8. In other words,
“signals forming an image” are stored “without any attempt to
recognize or convert the content into ASCII or other code.”
Specification at 2.
Fujisawa, as the examiner points out, is concerned with
poor recognition of different fonts. Column 2, lines 3-10.
Fujisawa’s solution is to maintain both an image file and a
converted data file for each original document. Column 2, lines
53-66. Fujisawa can retrieve images showing the original font,
but only after using converted character codes as search terms
for comparison to the converted data files. Column 3, lines 2-5.
Appellant’s solution, on the other hand, includes the
step of establishing a font table as shown in Figure 2 and the
step of constructing signals forming an image of a selected
search word by copying image signals from the font table.
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