Appeal No. 96-1190
Application 07/950,177
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from
the final rejection of claims 17-26. Claims 1-16 have been
canceled.
We reverse.
BACKGROUND
The disclosed invention is directed to a character
recognition method.
Claim 17 is reproduced below.
17. A computer-implemented method of preparing for
storage and retrieval data from source documents
comprising the steps of
establishing in computer memory stored patterns of
electrical signals forming lexicons of images of
characters in at least one font,
comparing signals representative of images of characters
from the source documents with stored signals
representative of images of characters in the lexicons,
identifying signals representative of images of
characters for which no match is found as ambiguous
characters; and
storing the signals representative of images of ambiguous
characters for use in retrieval of documents in which the
ambiguous characters appeared.
The examiner relies on the following prior art patent:
Katsuyama et al. (Katsuyama) 5,197,107 March 23, 1993
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