Appeal No. 1997-1665 Page 10
Application No. 08/289,134
The reference also teaches generating coordinate data
corresponding to characteristics of input handwriting.
Specifically, "[i]nformation concerning the location of the
stylus 38 on the screen of the display assembly 20 is input
into the CPU 12 .... Typically, this information comprises
the Cartesian (i.e. x & y) coordinates of a pixel of the
screen of display assembly 20 over which the tip of the stylus
is positioned." Col. 5, ll. 11-17.
Capps suggests comparing the features with data in a
gesture database. Specifically, Figure 4b of the reference
shows that "the ink object I has been recognized by a word
recognizer of the system 10 and is replaced with the word
object W." Col. 8, ll. 25-27. Persons skilled in the art
would have understood that such word recognition involved
comparing features of the ink object I with the word object W.
For example, Capps incorporates by reference the disclosure
of a preferred word recognizer found in copending U.S.
Application Serial No. 08/068,443, col. 8, ll.
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