Appeal No. 97-0642
Application 08/242,318
the user presses the "MATCH" (misspelled as "HATCH") softkey,
which causes the computer to convert the handwritten input to
the corresponding font symbols as shown in figure 12E
(col. 12, lines 41-63).
Kato relates to a scanning-type full text search method
and system. "More in particular, it relates to a document
search method and apparatus suitable for preventing omission
in search caused by differences in synonyms and notations at
the time of searching using non-controlled key words (called
free words)." (Col. 1, lines 10-15.) Figure 9 shows a
standardizing process in which a plurality of notations are
collected into one, e.g., "a search term written in romaji or
katakana is once converted into a term written in katakana by
a standard notation" (col. 6, lines 7-9) and "[o]n the other
hand, a search term written in alphabets is generalized to
expression in katakana by borrowed word/kana conversion"
(col. 6, lines 12-14). After forming the synonyms, the terms
are subjected to different kinds of conversion, such as
kana/kanji conversion (col. 6, lines 15-23). Appellant does
not dispute that Kato teaches conversion from one text domain
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