Appeal No. 96-1435
Application 08/265,497
receiving a handwritten stroke written on the screen
of said computer system, said stroke being received in a form
that can be manipulated by said processor;
determining a start point and a stop point of said
stroke;
normalizing said stroke with said processor by
rotating said stroke about a stroke center until at least one
of said start point or said stop point aligns with a
predefined axis, thereby obtaining a normalized stroke;
matching said normalized stroke against a template of
character parts stored in memory to create one or more
associated character part interpretations;
using said processor to group said normalized stroke,
if possible, with one or more normalized strokes that were
matched in a like fashion to create a character part group;
and
using said processor to recognize a higher level
object from said character part group utilizing the angles
between the strokes of the character part group and using said
character part interpretations.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Crane et al. (Crane) 4,718,102 Jan. 05, 1988
Sklarew 5,157,737 Oct. 20, 1992
(filed May 14,
1990)
Claims 1-10, 13-25 and 29-34 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 103. As evidence of obviousness the examiner offers
Sklarew in view of Crane.
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