Appeal No.1996-1411
Application No. 08/237,393
indicate three-dimensional movement. Likewise, the data
stored in Haney based on two-dimensional stances and positions
would have to be replaced by storage locations based on three-
dimensional spatial orientations as claimed.
Appel also teaches that the movement of a point in
three dimensions in space (XYZ) requires that a calculation be
made to determine the spatial orientation of the movement.
Note that Appel uses direction cosines of the angles made by
the three-dimensional movement to determine the new
orientation of the mannequin or actor [see column 6]. Thus,
spatial orientation is clearly calculated from movement in
three orthogonal directions in Appel, and this spatial
orientation would be used to address the prestored three-
dimensional orientations prestored in the Haney system as
modified by Appel or Frazer.
Appellant argues the advantages obtained by using
space angles, but we are unable to see how Haney could operate
in three
dimensions without the use of space angles which define the
three-dimensional movement of an object in three-dimensional
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