Appeal No. 1999-2022
Application No. 08/963,987
Tan and Lee
On pages 3 and 4 of the final rejection, the Examiner
states that Tan shows everything except that it “does not select
the attribute related to the geometrical integrity of the
document image.” For that, the Examiner relies on Lee. The
Examiner concludes, id. at 4, that “it would have been obvious
... that Tan can select the attribute related to rectangularity
of the document image as taught by Lee because their inventions
both relate to the method of processing a document image and the
combined system would efficiently improve the method.”
Appellants argue, brief at page 3, that “[e]ven if the teachings
of Tan and Lee are combined ..., the result would be an optical
character recognition system that preprocesses the document
image to remove document skew, not a system that assesses the
condition of a document image to determine whether the document
image is suitable for further processing.”
Our own study of the Tan and the Lee references shows that they
are
not directed to assessing the condition of the image of the
document before any specific corrections are made. Tan
6
Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007