Appeal No. 2004-1097
Application No. 09/924,831
a speech recognition unit which converts to electronic
speech data a voice command received through the microphone to
select one of the plurality of dental images for viewing; and
a command and control processor for the electronic speech
data received from said speech recognition unit, wherein said
command and control processor causes the selected dental image to
be retrieved from the storage device and then displayed on the
display monitor.
The prior art reference of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims is:
Dewaele 6,047,257 Apr. 04, 2000
Claims 1 through 18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Dewaele.
Reference is made to the Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 16,
mailed November 4, 2003) for the examiner's complete reasoning in
support of the rejection, and to appellants' Brief (Paper No. 15,
filed August 13, 2003) for appellants' arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the claims, the applied prior
art references, and the respective positions articulated by
appellants and the examiner. As a consequence of our review, we
will reverse the obviousness rejection of claims 1 through 18.
The examiner asserts (Answer, page 4) that the only
difference between Dewaele and appellants' claims is that Dewaele
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