Appeal No. 96-0361
Application 08/288,154
operation of the fuzzy logic rule base," as claimed. The
rules in rule base 700 are not employed until the minimum
comparator 500. The examiner has failed to establish a prima
facie case of anticipation.
Nevertheless, for reasons not stated by the examiner, we
find that Basehore appears to teach the claimed invention.
Basehore discloses that the minimum comparator 500
processes the fuzzified input signals in accordance with a
predetermined fuzzy logic rule selected from the rule memory
700 (col. 6, line 48 to col. 7, line 4). The maximum
comparator 600 identifies the rule which has the maximum value
for the minimum term rule (col. 7, lines 11-16): "The
identified rule, selected as having the highest overall degree
of correlation and, therefore, the optimum output, is
addressed from the rule memory 700 and the corresponding rule
output is provided to an output register 800" (emphasis
added). Basehore states (col. 7, lines 18-19): "The output
register 800 modifies the existing (or initial) output on the
basis of the rule output provided." The output register is
shown in figure 10. Basehore states (col. 15, lines 29-33):
"The MAX RULE signal from the maximum comparator 600 is
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