Appeal No. 96-1190
Application 07/950,177
appeared" is not found in Katsuyama as discussed supra. As to
the fourth and fifth limitations of claim 22 of "assigning a
value to signals representing each numeral found" and "using
the signals representing the images of the numerals to perform
calculations," the examiner states that "the limitation of
using the signals to perform calculations is fairly broad, so
the reiteration in the correction algorithm can be considered
other calculations" (EA12). We disagree. Presumably the
examiner is referring to the correction of image data by
thickening/thinning and magnification/reduction of the image
shown as step 405 in figure 7 and the procedure for
determining optimum parameters in figure 21. This external
procedure is not the same thing as recognizing a numeral and
then using a value assigned to the recognized numeral in
performing calculations. If the examiner is referring to
extraction of the characteristic quantity in step 423 of
figure 21 followed by calculation of distance in step 424,
these are steps in the recognition, not a step subsequent to
recognition as claimed. We agree with appellant's argument
(RBr2) that the claimed steps of assigning values and
performing calculations is not the same as the reiteration
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