Appeal No. 1998-1317
Application No. 08/522,112
define the specific terms used to describe his or her
invention, this must be done with reasonable clarity,
deliberateness, and precision. In re Paulsen, 30 F.3d 1475,
1480, 31 USPQ2d 1671, 1674 (Fed. Cir. 1994).
Claim 8 is directed to a method of restoring a blurred
printed document text image. The claimed method recites use
of a particular form of a priori data. This data
specifically includes: the average size of words, sentences,
and paragraphs for a preselected language; the average
distribution of word size in textual material written in a
preselected language; and the average frequency of occurrence
of all letters in textual material written in a preselected
language.
While we find that Stroke teaches deblurring of image
data, there is nothing in the reference which would have
taught or suggested use of this technique for deblurring
text image data using the particular a priori data and hence
the particular technique of claim 8.
A close review of Guberman, and Huttenlocher makes clear
that neither reference teaches or suggests use of the
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