Appeal No. 1998-2990
Application No. 08/433,642
disclose graphic data storing means for storing graphic data
corresponding to a plurality of patterns (brief, page 4; final
rejection, page 5).
For such a teaching, the examiner turns to the graphics
recognition teachings of Endo. In the Endo system, “[w]hen a
pattern is manually drawn on a tablet with an electronic pen,
a computer executes a graphic processing to display on a CRT a
geometrically defined pattern which best resembles the
manually drawn pattern” (Abstract). In short, we agree with
the examiner (final rejection, pages 5 and 6) that Endo can
recognize a plurality of manually inputted patterns (column 1,
lines 6 through 10 and column 2, lines 25 through 38). Based
upon the teachings of Endo, the examiner concludes (final
rejection, page 6) that “[i]t would have been obvious to a
person of ordinary skill in the art at the time the invention
was made to combine Endo et al. with Poulsen et al. because
Endo et al. can interpret a shape drawn on the screen as a
circle which will surround an image better if the image is
circular.”
Appellants argue inter alia that “while Poulsen may teach
a one-dimensional technique for processing data in a single
4
Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007