Appeal No. 97-1622
Application No. 08/109,179
further has no disclosure of the expression of such calculated
neighborhood by a quantization number. We note that
Appellants’ claim 1 recites
means for, on the basis of a concept of
continuous mapping of a topology, calculating a
neighborhood of the input space which satisfies
the required precision of the single output data
as a statistical amount of all input data of the
case data, and for expressing the calculated
neighborhood of the input space as a
quantization number by which the input space is
quantized;
The Examiner (answer, page 9) relies on a teaching of
Hanson for this feature although DARPA was relied on in the
statement of the ground of rejection (answer, page 4). The
Examiner contends that the setting up of the histogram in
Hanson would meet the claim requirements. Hanson is directed
to a statistical process control technique in which historical
frequency distribution data from selected variables are
plotted to develop a histogram (e.g. Figs. 4 and 5), the data
of which can be analyzed utilizing various statistical control
techniques such as trend analysis to develop control
parameters such as alarm limits. The Examiner has argued
(page 9 of answer) that the establishment of a histogram would
necessary include a quantization and the calculation of input
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