Appeal No. 1997-1413
Application 07/765,757
a writing pad for converting sketches into display signals as
claimed [substitute reply brief, pages 3-5]. Finally,
appellant argues that the outputs of Ishii’s keyboard input go
to the display only and not to the film.
We do not agree with appellant’s arguments with
respect to the teachings of Ishii. Figure 23 of Ishii shows
that Ishii contemplated entering captions for photographs by
use of a keyboard. Ishii refers to these captions as
“arbitrary messages,” and Ishii notes that “a data input means
is not limited to a keyboard, but can be an input device which
recognizes a manually input character pattern [column 14,
lines 55-57]. The artisan would have understood this portion
of Ishii as suggesting that a writing pad be used instead of
the keyboard because such writing pads were conventional
devices for inputting “character patterns” as an alternative
to a traditional keyboard. Given that the quoted portion of
Ishii would have suggested a writing pad to the artisan, the
artisan would also have recognized that any type of writing
pad would be acceptable such as the writing pad disclosed by
Johnston. The writing pad of Johnston displays exactly what
is drawn by the user. Appellant’s argument that the
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