Appeal No. 2003-0193
Application 09/306,469
processors, are eliminated by consolidating various input devices
into the single universal input device” (col. 2, lines 10-12).
The examiner argues that Ackley would have led one of
ordinary skill in the art to eliminate redundant circuitry in
Brais’ method by using a host processor rather than incorporating
a processor into the camera (answer, pages 4-5). Even if Ackley
would have fairly suggested such a host processor to one of
ordinary skill in the art, the examiner does not explain how
Brais and Ackley would have led such a person carry out the steps
in the appellant’s claim 1 of accessing at least one command
number from a voice macro command file within the capture device,
finding a matching command number in a voice command recognition
table, and retrieving a voice command file linked to the matching
command number from the voice command recognition table.2
2 The examiner argues that Ackley implies that the processor
sends a command to activate a switch of the capture device
(answer, page 11). Ackley discloses that the universal input
device can include a trigger switch as a user input for inputting
signals to the processor (col. 4, lines 9-15). As pointed out by
the examiner (answer, page 11), Ackley states that “[b]y
activating the trigger switch, the processor 104 causes the two-
dimensional imager 102 to provide image signals to the
processor 104" (col. 4, lines 14-17). The teaching that the
trigger switch is for user input of signals to the processor
(col. 4, lines 9-15), however, indicates that “[b]y activating
the trigger switch”, Ackley means “by a user activating the
trigger switch”, not “by the processor activating the trigger
switch”.
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