Appeal No. 1997-1652
Application 07/942,971
computer system including a handwritten instrument and an
electronic tablet, the method comprising the steps of:
defining input areas on the electronic tablet, each
associated with one attribute of the graphic object;
drawing a gesture with the handwriting instrument over a
selected one of the input areas, the gesture drawn being
indicative of a desired format selected for the attributed
associated with the selected input area;
recognizing the gesture drawn over the selected input
area;
determining the desired format represented by the gesture
drawn; and
changing the format of the attribute of the graphic
object associated with the selected input area to the desired
format.
The following reference is relied on by the examiner:
Rubine, “Specifying Gestures by Example,” Proceedings of the
ACM, SIGGRAPH '91, Computer Graphics, Vol. 25, No. 4 (July
1991), pp. 329-37.
Claims 1, 2, 4 through 9, 14 through 17 and 19 through 21
stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated
by Rubine. The remaining claims on appeal, claims 3, 10
through 13, 18 and 22 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being obvious over Rubine alone.
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