Appeal No. 97-0271
Application No. 08/186,212
The appellants' invention relates to a self-clocking
glyph code, each glyph having plural graphical characteristics
each of which has plural graphical states. Further, all of
the glyphs have a substantially uniform size. Claim 1 is
illustrative of the claimed invention, and it reads as
follows:
1. A self-clocking glyph code for transferring multi-bit
digital values back and forth between an electronic domain and
a hardcopy domain, said code comprising
a logically ordered sequence of mutually independent
glyphs that are written on said recording medium in accordance
with a predetermined spatial formatting rule, said glyphs all
being of substantially uniform size;
each of said glyphs having a plurality of predetermined,
discriminable graphical characteristics; and each of said
graphical characteristics having a plurality of predetermined,
discriminable graphical states;
said multi-bit digital values being distributively
encoded in a predetermined logical order in the states of the
graphical characteristics of respective ones of said glyphs,
whereby each of said digital values is encoded as a plurality
of logically ordered bit strings.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:2
Sanford 4,443,694 Apr. 17, 1984
Sugita, JP 63-254586, published October 21, 1988, was cited in the2
prior art section of the Examiner's Answer but was not applied in any
rejections.
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