Appeal No. 1998-0629
Application 08/234,525
(col. 20, lines 7-57); correction for "line tracking" to
compensate for relative vertical displacement between adjacent
characters (col. 23, lines 14-36); or correction for "skew" to
compensate for the longitudinal direction of the row of
elements of the sensor not being perpendicular to the
longitudinal direction of the row of characters (col. 23,
line 39, to col. 24, line 56). The purpose of these methods
is to define a character independent of distortions to enable
the identification of an unknown character (col. 23,
lines 53-59). None of this "standardizing" involves
"normalizing" in the sense of dividing by a reference quantity
or modifying an attribute value using any quantity which might
be deemed an "attribute value standard" determined from a "set
of attribute values" to normalize attribute values. Although
"standardizing" may involve expanding the image in the column
and row direction until the image touches the borders of a
matrix of determined dimension (col. 4, lines 17-21; col. 23,
line 64, to col. 24, line 7), this is not done using an
attribute value standard determined from a set of attribute
values. Note that a period "after software modification
[i.e., "standardizing"], will have a diameter extending from
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