Appeal No. 95-5009
Application 08/162,367
Appellant’s method further includes comparing the signals forming
the constructed search word image with signals forming the image
representations of scanned and stored documents.
Fujisawa does not use a constructed image signal as a
search term to compare to stored image signals as claimed by
Appellants. Therefore, the rejections will not be sustained.
As to dependent claims 18 and 58, the examiner applies
Fujisawa as above, further in view of Kato. Kato does not
overcome the shortcomings of the basic rejection over Fujisawa.
Like Fujisawa, Kato uses a converted character code search term
to compare to converted character codes stored in memory, whereas
the claimed method uses an (unconverted) image signal search term
to compare to (unconverted) image signals stored in memory.
Thus, the rejection of claims 18 and 58 will not be sustained.
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