Appeal No. 1997-1665 Page 3
Application No. 08/289,134
at least one input handwriting storing means for
storing input handwriting corresponding to said
coordinate data provided from said tablet means in
response to said operation;
means for detecting a feature portion of said
coordinate data which corresponds to a set of one or
more characteristics of said input handwriting
stored in said input handwriting storing means;
means for comparing said feature portion of said
coordinate data handwriting with a feature portion
of a gesture stored in a previously employed gesture
data base; and
means for determining that said operation is a
gesture when said feature portion of said coordinate
data is similar to the feature portion of said
gesture based on a comparison with a predetermined
level of similarity and executing the corresponding
gesture; wherein:
when either the line segment or the character is
being displayed on said display, said feature
portion of said coordinate data is provided by said
tablet means and in response to said feature portion
of said coordinate data, a preselected command is
performed to change a display condition of said line
segment or said character.
The references relied on in rejecting the claims follow:
Shojima et al. (Shojima) 4,653,107 Mar.
24, 1987
Agulnick et al. (Agulnick) 5,347,295 Sep. 13, 1994
filed Oct. 31, 1990
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