Appeal No. 1998-0629 Application 08/234,525 the bottom to the top of the character space" (col. 24, lines 5-7), which is clearly not the same as normalizing the height according to a standard value. The Examiner stated that "Wilber does teach that 'character attributes are normalized using an attribute value standard or the like' [at col. 3, line 66 to col. 4, line 3]" (FR3). Appellants note that this passage has nothing to do with generation or use of an attribute value standard for generating a set of normalized attribute values, but rather is describing a technique to compensate for shear (Br14-16). The Examiner responds that the argument is not persuasive since no histogram is claimed (EA3). Appellants' response to the Examiner's assertion is correct. The histograms are used to determine orientation to correct for shear, not as frequency distributions to determine an attribute value standard to be utilized to normalize attribute values. For these reasons, the Examiner erred in finding that Wilber teaches the steps of "determining from said set of attribute values a selected value to be used as an attribute value standard" and "generating for said sequence of - 9 -Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007