Appeal No. 1998-0629
Application 08/234,525
"sequence of characters to be recognized" may already be
characters in memory. There is no calculation of any
attribute values (e.g., the height, width, position, etc.) in
the cited portion of Wilber, much less determining a selected
value to be used as a standard from the set of calculated
values. The scanned characters inherently have a height and
width, but this is not the same thing as determining what they
are.
The Examiner equates the step of "standardizing" in
Wilber with the claimed step of "normalizing." Thus, the
Examiner apparently reasons that because Wilber is normalizing
the characters, it implicitly must be doing so in the same
manner as claimed. The Examiner errs in his findings and
assumptions.
Wilber states (col. 3, lines 55-60):
The term "standardizing", as used herein, refers to the
modification of signals by the performing of
predetermined steps so that the signals correspond to a
modified character. (The "modified" character may not
necessarily be "recognizable" as such in the sense of
having an appearance to that of the actual character.)
"Standardizing" may involve correction for "shear" using
plural representations of the data with different shear
distortions and a rule for testing the representations
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