Appeal No. 2000-0965
Application No. 08/927,465
Brief, dependent claims 12-16 contain allowable subject matter
subject to being rewritten in independent form to include all
the limitations of their parent claims. Accordingly, only the
rejection of claims 1, 4-11, and 17 is before us on appeal.
The claimed invention relates to a self-contained hands
free electrical signal measurement device in which a system
unit having a central processing unit (CPU) and a speech
recognition system is carried on or attached to the person of
a technician. In operation, the technician connects a test
probe to an electrical test point and operates the measurement
device by issuing spoken commands. The speech recognition
system responds to the spoken commands to direct and navigate
through a displayed user interface in order to operate the
electrical signal measurement functions.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the invention and reads as
follows:
1. A self-contained hands free electrical signal
measurement device comprising:
a system unit which is attachable to or worn on the
person of a technician, the system unit including a
central processing unit (CPU) and associated circuitry
running speech recognition software, a speech recognizer
communicating with the CPU to operate electrical signal
measurement functions in response to spoken commands, a
2
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