Appeal No. 96-3128
Application 08/246,723
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 1 through 27, all of the claims pending in the
application.
The invention relates to an optical information
processing system wherein light is utilized as a medium for
carrying information. In particular, the invention is
directed to an optical information processing system which
utilizes a constituent unit group. Appellant discloses on
page 19 of the specification that Figure 1 illustrates a
constituent unit group 1 having an input information
displaying means 2 which presents an optical pattern I0. The
constituent unit 1 also includes a plurality of optical
correlation operation means (3, 3,...). Each optical
correlation operation means 3 detects only a portion of
optical pattern I0 that falls within its predetermined range.
The arrows shown in Figure 1 illustrate the portion of the
optical pattern I0 that falls within the predetermined range
of each optical correlation operation means 3.
Independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A constituent unit for an optical information
processing system, comprising:
2
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