Appeal No. 96-0361
Application 08/288,154
set membership function, 5 bits for the width of the
membership function, and 3 bits identifying the input
addressed by the address signal (FIG. 6)." (Col. 9,
lines 5-11). These values are used to fuzzify the input
signals and do not contain output information. Therefore, the
registers 200 do not "store a value representative of an
output derived from an operation of the fuzzy logic rule base"
(emphasis added), as claimed.
The examiner also states with respect to claim 1 that
"the row of registers in figure 3 act as the memory having
look-up table with each register being a separate memory
location, and each register contains a fuzzy set, a
compilation of values, which is derived from the rule memory,
see figure 3, element 700, the rule memory is the claimed
fuzzy logic rule base" (EA6) and makes a similar response with
respect to the argument corresponding to claim 32 (EA6-7).
Each register stores the value of one piece of input data
(sensed state variable) along with membership function
information needed to calculate a fuzzified input signal as
discussed in the preceding paragraph. The registers 200 do
not "store a value representative of an output derived from an
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