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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 29
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte YING-WEI LIN
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Appeal No. 2000-0404
Application No. 08/626,433
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ON BRIEF
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Before THOMAS, RUGGIERO, and GROSS, Administrative Patent Judges.
GROSS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final
rejection of claims 1 through 5, 7 through 13, 15 through 19, 21
through 26, and 28, which are all of the claims pending in this
application.
Appellant's invention relates to a system and method for
automatically segmenting a document image by classifying each
type of imagery within the document with some probability. The
input image signals are classified into a combination of at least
three predetermined classes of imagery, and a plurality of non-
zero probabilities are produced as a function of the properties
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