Appeal No. 2004-1097
Application No. 09/924,831
retrieving an image for display.1 Dewaele clearly discloses
(column 3, lines 54-67, and column 7, lines 46-49) an
identification station which includes a speech recognition
subassembly for providing input data via speech. Dewaele further
teaches (column 9, lines 16-29) that a medical image is taken and
stored on a cassette which is then transferred to the
identification station. At the identification station, the
operator utters identification information, i.e., the operator's
name, the patient's name, the type of examination represented by
the image, the layout parameters as to how the image will be
processed and displayed (such as the patient's position, the
cassette's position, and the exposure class), and the place where
the image is to be printed or viewed (see column 9, line 39-
column 11, line 38). Once the information is converted by the
speech recognition unit and stored with the image on the
cassette, the cassette is removed from the identification station
and entered into a read out apparatus where the image is
processed according to the stored processing parameters (see
column 11, lines 39-45). Nowhere does the operator use a voice
command "to select one of the plurality of dental images for
1 We note that we find nothing in the claim that requires manipulation
of the image by voice commands.
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