Appeal No. 97-0507
Application 08/202,609
repetitively inputting representative aeromagnetically measured
data above the surface of the earth over known depth to basement
rock regions and for repetitively comparing the output of said
output layer elements with said known depth to basement rock to
form error signals, and for changing as a function of said error
signals the weighting functions of said first and second systems
of interconnections between said input layer and said hidden
layer and said output layer of elements so as to minimize the
magnitude of said error signals, until such magnitude is smaller
than a predetermined accuracy value.
The following references are relied on by the examiner:
McCormack 5,265,192 Nov. 23, 1993
(filed Sep. 20, 1990)
Reilly et al. (Reilly), “An Overview of Neural Networks: Early
Models to Real World Systems,” An Intro. To Neural and Electronic
Networks, Academic Press, pp. 227-248 (1990).
Claims 25 to 30 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(a) as
being clearly anticipated by Reilly. These same claims also
stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as being clearly
anticipated by McCormack. 2
Rather than repeat the positions of the appellants and the
examiner, reference is made to the briefs and the answer for the
respective details thereof.
OPINION
At the outset, we note that appellants indicate at the top
of page 3 of the brief that a companion divisional application
2A rejection of certain claims under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as
set forth in the final rejection has not been maintained or
repeated in the answer. Therefore, it is not before us.
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