Appeal No. 1995-3030 Page 13
Application No. 08/073,091
rejection of claims 44, 56, 63, 74, 85, 87, and 89 as
anticipated by Korsinsky. Next, we address the rejections
relying on Piosenka
II. Rejections Relying on Piosenka
The examiner makes the following allegation.
Piosenka et al. provides a first transducer for
converting a user's speech to a first signal (figure
1 : 14); a second transducer for converting the
user's handwriting to a second signal (figure 1 :
15); a digital data processor, having a first input
coupled to the first signal and a second input
coupled to the second signal, for processing the
first signal and the second signal to identify an
informational content of the first and second signal
(figure 1 : 1); the digital data processor
including, a first likelihood estimator for
generating a first list comprised of one or more
probable messages conveyed by the informational
content of the first signal (figure 2 : 37); a
second likelihood estimator for generating a second
list comprised of one or more probable messages
conveyed by the informational content of the second
signal (figure 2 : 42); wherein a probable message
is comprised of at least one word (refer to column
5, lines 39-51); a likelihood merger for selectively
merging the first list and the second list to form a
third list (figure 2 : 37); a decoder for selecting
from the third list a most probable one of the
probable messages to be an output message (figure 2
: 39); and means for outputting the output mesage
[sic] (figure 2 : 39).
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