Ex parte TAKEBAYASHI et al. - Page 4




               Appeal No. 1997-4121                                                                                                    
               Application No. 08/427,272                                                                                              


               element 8 and element 14 in Figure 2) in extracting word feature vectors in the learning means 3.                       

                       Word spotting schemes were well known and such is admitted by appellants (see top of page 2 of                  

               the specification).  Thus, appellants do not rely on “word spotting,” per se, for patentability.                        

































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