Appeal No. 1996-2198
Application 08/077,506
will be inoperative because the "second forming
means" will not operate when the "identifying means"
("recognition mode") is selected by the switch.
[Answer at 8.]
As appellant correctly notes (Brief at 26), it is clear from
the specification that mode selection switch 13 does not
control the power to reference pattern generator 11 and thus
to second pattern forming circuit 18, as the examiner appears
to believe. Instead, when set for operation in the training
mode, the selection switch connects the feature vectors from
feature analyzer 10 to the input of reference pattern
generator 11, which generates reference patterns and stores
them in second pattern forming circuit 18 (Spec. at 8, line 7
to p. 13, line 10). When set for operation in the identifying
mode, the selection switch connects the output of feature
vectors from feature analyzer 10 to identifier 12 for analysis
using the patterns stored in second pattern forming circuit 18
(Spec. at 13, lines 11-27).
Finally, the examiner contends (Answer at 9) that claim 5
is indefinite because the recitation "wherein said approximate
continuous probability density function is only calculated
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