Appeal No. 1996-2480
Application 08/163,825
FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejec-
tion of claims 1 through 16, 19 through 32 and 34 through 53.
Claims 17, 18 and 33 are objected to as being dependent on
rejected base claims.
The invention is directed to a classification type
neural network that performs piecewise linear separation along
the entire input space. On page 26 of the specification,
Appellants disclose the architecture of the facet classifica-
tion neural network of the invention by referring to figure
10. In particular, Appellants disclose that figure 10 shows a
multilayer neural network having input layer 162, two layers
of nodes (difference nodes 164 and perceptron nodes 166) and
output layer 168. Input layer 162 receives n-dimensional
input vectors representing information to be classified by
neural network 160. Difference nodes 164 are nodes found in a
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