Appeal No. 1997-1665 Page 9
Application No. 08/289,134
representative claim 1 specifies in pertinent part the
following limitations:
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 ....
Giving the claim its broadest reasonable interpretation, the
limitations recite detecting features of coordinate data
corresponding to characteristics of input handwriting and
comparing the features with data in a gesture database.
Capps would have suggested the limitations. The
reference teaches inputting handwriting. Specifically,
"information is input into the pen-based computer system 10 by
'writing' on the screen of display assembly 20 with the stylus
38." Col. 5, ll. 9-11. For example, Figure 4a of Capps shows
"an ink object 'I' [that] has been entered into the computer
system 10 and is displayed on the screen 52." Col. 8, ll. 23-
24.
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