Appeal No. 1997-2708
Application No. 08/337,204
through 80, 83, 84, 88 through 90, 92, 117, 141 through 146,
148 through 150, and 157 and also the obviousness rejections
of claims 31, 37, 38, 75, 91, 118, and 147.
Independent method claim 28 recites "digitizing,
electronically, on a non-minutiae basis, the said fingerprint
image data to produce a non-minutiae digitized numerical
identifier." Each of independent method claims 72 and 88
includes similar limitations of "selectively analyzing,
electronically, on a non-minutiae basis, a plurality of
different fingerprint image parts," and "compiling a data
matrix ... to provide a non-minutiae digitized numerical
identifier." Independent apparatus claim 141 parallels claims
72 and 88 by reciting a processor means "for selectively
analyzing, electronically, on a non-minutiae basis, a
plurality of different fingerprint image parts ... to provide
a non-minutiae digitized numerical identifier." Thus, all of
the independent claims require that the numerical identifier
not be based on "minutiae." Appellants define "minutiae" in
the specification (page 10) as either "(1) a bifurcation,
which is the location where a given line forks into different
lines; or (2) a ridge ending."
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