Appeal No. 1996-3193
Application 08/160,112
Claims 1, 3, and 4 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Taniguchi.
Claims 5-12 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Taniguchi and Hill.
We refer to the second Office action entered
February 21, 1995 (Paper No. 5), the Final Rejection (Paper
No. 8) (pages referred to as "FR__"), and the Examiner's
Answer (Paper No. 14) (pages referred to as "EA__") for a
statement of the Examiner's position and to the Appeal Brief
(Paper No. 13) (pages referred to as "Br__") and the Reply
Brief (Paper No. 15) (pages referred to as "RBr__") for a
statement of Appellants' arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
Group I - Claims 1, 3, and 4
The Examiner finds that Taniguchi discloses the claimed
invention except (Paper No. 5, page 4):
Taniguchi does not disclose keeping a running sum of the
output absolute values. However, it was old and
notoriously well known in the art at the time of the
invention that a running sum was an appropriate method of
summing multiple values, and therefore, this modification
would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the
art at the time of the invention.
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