Appeal No. 1998-0631
Application 07/957,990
pressure information no matter which keyboard embodiment is
involved and, so, applies to all keyboard embodiment species
(i.e., at least species 1-4). It is true that figure 4 does
not show the processing described at pages 13-14, but
neither do any of the other figures; the figures show the
pressure measurement structure, not the processing.
Therefore, the specification as a whole indicates that the
region averaging and shared characteristic evaluation
applies to all keyboard species, including the elected
species of figure 4.
The Examiner's finding "that the Fig. 4 embodiment is
unable to do any sort of 'region averaging' or 'shared
characteristic' evaluation" (OA3) is erroneous to the extent
that it finds the structure of figure 4 cannot be used in
connection with software processing to perform the
functions. As noted, none of the apparatus figures shows
the processing, but the processing could be performed in the
microprocessor 43' of figure 5 of species 1. A program is
clearly capable of classifying the depressed keys
(identified by their scancodes) into "regions" or
"characteristics" and matching it with the pressure
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