Appeal No. 1997-0012
Application No. 08/174,901
ii. combining each of the found individual runs of
each scan line which neighbor at least one black bit of the
another scan line with each neighboring black bit of the
another scan line to form at least one character;
iii. determining the first and second coordinates
defining a location on the mailpiece outer surface of a block
having at least one character and assigning a descriptive
value to the block as a function of a plurality of features
thereof; and
iv. comparing the descriptive value assigned to the
block having at lest [sic, least] one character to a list of
values identifying the location of a plurality of blocks of
data and identifying the block having at least one character
as a particular one of the plurality of blocks of data if the
descriptive value is the same as one of the values in the list
of values.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Kizu et al. (Kizu) 4,516,265 May 7,
1985
Radl et al. (Radl) 4,782,238 Nov. 1,
1988
Pizano et al. (Pizano) 5,293,429 Mar. 8,
1994
(filed Aug. 6, 1991)
Claims 1 through 10 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
103(a) as being unpatentable over Radl in view of Pizano and
Kizu.
Reference is made to the brief and the answer for the
respective positions of the appellants and the examiner.
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