The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written
for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 31
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte EIICHI TSUBOKA
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Appeal No. 2000-0189
Application No. 08/864,460
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HEARD: Jan. 17, 2002
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Before KRASS, BARRETT, and BARRY, Administrative Patent Judges.
BARRY, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
The examiner rejected claims 1-13. The appellant appeals
therefrom under 35 U.S.C. § 134(a). We reverse.
BACKGROUND
The invention at issue in this appeal is a Hidden Markov
Model (“HMM”) generator that is applicable to such pattern
recognitions as speech recognition. The HMM generator
includes a vector quantizing means for quantizing vectors of a
training pattern having a vector series and converting the
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