Appeal No. 1999-2027
Application No. 08/452,500
said contour lines, each of said contour lines into one of a
convex line segment, a concave line segment, and a hole
segment so as to extract feature parameters of each of said
contour lines;
matching means for comparing and attempting to match said
feature parameters of those of said line segments which are
determined not to be convex segments lesser than a
predetermined length with a plurality of predetermined feature
vectors of a dictionary so as to decide said two-dimensional
character pattern.
The prior art reference of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claim is:
Forsen et al. (Forsen) 4,097,847 Jun. 27,
1978
Claim 1 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first
paragraph, as being non-enabled by the original disclosure.
Claim 1 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being
anticipated by Forsen.
Reference is made to the Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 53,
mailed October 27, 1998) for the examiner's complete reasoning
in support of the rejections, and to appellants' Brief (Paper
No. 52, filed August 10, 1998) and Reply Brief (Paper No. 54,
filed December 28, 1998) for appellants' arguments
thereagainst.
OPINION
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