Appeal No. 96-1190
Application 07/950,177
happens when a character is "ambiguous," that is, when a
character cannot be matched to a known character. In
particular, Katsuyama does not disclose that an ambiguous
(unidentified) character is identified as such and stored.
Katsuyama, in fact, continues the recognition until
recognition of all characters is complete and then enters a
correction mode to allow a user to point out and correct
erroneously recognized characters (figure 30; col. 23,
lines 24-33);
The examiner discusses that Katsuyama generates distorted
characters by thickening/thinning and magnification/reduction
operations when characters are not recognized and states that
"[i]t is this generation of distorted characters, that the
examiner was trying to parallel to appellant's ambiguous
characters" (EA8). We fail to understand the examiner's
reading of the claimed limitations onto Katsuyama. The
characters produced by thickening/thinning and
magnification/reduction operations are used for matching and
character recognition, they are not "signals representative of
images of characters for which no match is found." The
examiner does not explain where Katsuyama addresses
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