Appeal No. 97-0642
Application 08/242,318
candidate text strings for ambiguous conversions, and
selecting from the list.
Claims 24-26
Horodeck discloses conversion of text domains, but does
not disclose a pen-based computer system with handwritten
character input and conversion in response to a conversion
gesture. It is admitted that it was known to use Japanese
handwriting recognition to enter characters (specification,
page 3). Sklarew discloses that "the keyboardless computer
can function in any application or environment in which
handwritten input translated into computer text is useful or
necessary" (col. 11, lines 1-4) and it has particular utility
for word processing and communication in "languages which are
not made up of a small or limited set of alphanumeric
characters (e.g., Japanese, Korean, and Chinese" (col. 11,
lines 10-13). In our opinion, one skilled in the art of
converting text from one text domain to another, such art
being represented by Horodeck, would have been motivated to
use a pen-based computer character recognition input, such as
Sklarew, because it is suited for handwritten input of
complicated characters. One of ordinary skill in the art
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