Appeal No. 96-2739
Application 08/185,320
manner, and may be searched for its location of the encoded
information (specification at pages 5 and 6).
On page 8 et seq. of the specification and Figure 1,
Appellants disclose a blank form 10 which includes arbitrary
text 12 such as document or field titles and arbitrary
graphics 14 such as graphical symbols. The form interpreter
will ignore the arbitrary text 12 and arbitrary graphics 14 in
favor of the contents of certain fields and encoded
information regions.
In order to facilitate locating regions of form 10 marked
for reading, i.e., fields, form 10 includes a reference point
16 from which the layout of the remainder of the form is
calculated. The form interpreter locates this point, and
measures the position of the contents of the fields to be read
therefrom. A convenient location for reference point 16 is
the upper left-hand corner of the form. Thus, the location of
a field may be described in terms of horizontal and vertical
displacements from the reference point.
Form 10 includes one or more fields such as check boxes
18, numeric or alphanumeric fields 20, multi-character alpha
field 22, and image fields 24.
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