Appeal No. 1996-3193
Application 08/160,112
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from
the final rejection of claims 1 and 3-12. Claims 2 and 13-34
have been canceled.
We affirm-in-part.
BACKGROUND
The disclosed invention is directed to a method for
forming the sum of the absolute value of the difference
between a pair of numbers in respective first and second sets
of numbers. The invention is described in the specification
at page 268, line 29, through page 281, line 3, with respect
to figure 47.2
Claim 1 is reproduced below.
1. A method for forming a sum of the absolute value
of the difference between each pair of numbers of
respective first and second sets of numbers, said method
comprising the steps of:
forming the difference between a first number of the
first set of numbers of said number pair and a second
number of the second set of numbers of said number pair;
setting a status bit to a first digital state if
said difference is greater than zero;
resetting said status bit to a second digital state
if said difference is less than zero;
Appellants may wish to change "loop up" to "look up"2
at page 272, line 18, of the specification.
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