Appeal No. 2000-1501
Application No. 08/745,587
The examiner relies on the following references:
Crayson 4,783,841 Nov. 08, 1988
Toyokawa 4,901,363 Feb. 13, 1990
Endoh et al. (Endoh) 4,922,545 May 01, 1990
Feng 5,592,227 Jan. 07, 1997
(filed Sep. 15, 1994)
Dachiku et al. (Dachiku) 5,592,228 Jan. 07, 1997
(filed Mar. 02, 1994)
Claims 1-13 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 . As evidence of
obviousness, the examiner cites either Toyokawa or Feng with regard to claim 1, and
cites Endoh and Crayson with regard to claims 2-9 and 11, adding Dachiku to this
combination with regard to claims 9 (again), 10, 12 and 13.
Reference is made to the briefs and answer for the respective positions of
appellant and the examiner.
OPINION
We will not sustain the rejection of claim 1 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 based on
Toyokawa because Toyokawa neither discloses nor suggests the claimed decoder
library that contains the generic feature representation and the symbol that identifies
the generic feature in the encoder library.
The examiner points to column 6, lines 45-68 of Toyokawa for a teaching of
encoder libraries containing a generic feature representation of an information quantity
and a corresponding symbolic code. The examiner relies on the tables of Toyokawa as
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