Appeal No. 1996-2480
Application 08/163,825
a plurality of nodes connected to said input node
for transforming said input patterns to localized domains
defined by each node;
a minimum node connected to said plurality of nodes
for identifying a transforming node from said plurality of
nodes;
a plurality of perceptron nodes, each said
perceptron node connected to a corresponding node from said
plurality of nodes for producing class designators, wherein
said transforming node transmits a signal to its corresponding
perceptron node for producing a class designator; and
an output node connected to said plurality of
perceptron nodes for receiving said class designators from
said plurality of perceptron nodes.
The Examiner relies on the following references:
Weingard 5,179,596 Jan. 12, 1993
Lu, Shin-yee, "Pattern Classification Using Self-Organizing
Feature Maps," International Joint Conference on Neural
Networks, vol. 1 (June 17-21, 1990), 471-80.
Claims 1 through 16, 19 through 32 and 34 through 53
stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over Weingard in view of Lu.
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