Appeal No. 2000-0580
Application No. 09/025,347
Example 3, column 24, line 1, to column 26, line 60). Thus, in our opinion, Corder meets the
limitations of paragraphs A and B of claim 1.
We also note that Corder (Figure 7(a)) discloses structure for displaying images, such as
animals, people, musical instruments, etc., which are known to make particular sounds, on a
computer screen, making a sound to be heard by the student, and prompting the student to
select the image which represents the person or object which makes the sound. Further,
Corder discloses structure for displaying images on a computer screen and prompting the
student to select the image which meets a particular criterion (Figure 7(b); column 13, lines 1-
9). However, there is no indication that these images are "images of said objects" identified by
the words for which the phonetic sounds and letters are stored in the electronic dictionary, as
required by claim 1.
The Corder system also comprises a microphone, voice recorder and voice analysis
hardware which permits a student to enunciate a sound, syllable or word to try to imitate, as
closely as possible, the standard sound, syllable or word spoken by the speech synthesizer from
the stored library of the system. Unlike the voice recognition unit recited in claim 1, which
acts to "recognize the distinctive sound pattern of the child speaking into the unit and to
condition the phonetic dictionary to respond to this pattern" (i.e., modify the stored phonetic3
dictionary to match the speech patterns of the child), the voice analysis hardware of Corder
3We interpret this term as "to affect, modify or influence" (Webster's New World Dictionary, Third
College Edition (Simon & Schuster, Inc. 1988)).
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