Appeal No. 1998-0643
Application 08/196,028
skew as taught by Schlang prior to executing the method of
Bloomberg and Tanaka (EA7).
Schlang discloses determining and correcting for skew
before performing other operations. However, Schlang does not
cure the deficiencies of Bloomberg and Tanaka as to the
limitations of identifying word object boundaries and
isolating word objects in claim 1. Accordingly, the rejection
of dependent claims 2-5 and 8-11 is reversed. Independent
claim 19 contains the same limitations as claim 1 in addition
to a step of determining the skew angle. Thus, the rejection
of claim 19 and its dependent claims 21 and 22 must be
reversed. Claim 29 is directed to a method of isolating a
word object including a step of determining a skew angle.
Claim 29 is broader than claim 1, but it still requires the
step of locating the boundaries of symbols grouped to the word
object, which is not found in Bloomberg, Tanaka, or Schlang.
Thus, the rejection of claims 29 and 30 is reversed.
Claims 26-28
Claims 26-28 do not contain any limitations of
identifying word object boundaries and isolating word objects,
but are directed to determining the text baseline (claim 26),
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