Appeal No. 1997-0322
Application 08/014,574
constitute all the claims remaining in the application. An
amendment after final rejection was filed on December 29, 1994
and was entered by the examiner. A second amendment after
final rejection was filed on October 6, 1995 and was also
entered by the examiner. The final rejection of the claims
under 35 U.S.C. § 101 has been withdrawn by the examiner
[supplemental answer, page 2]. A new ground of rejection of
the claims under 35 U.S.C. § 112 made in the initial answer
has also now been withdrawn [id., pages 1-2]. The remaining
rejections apply only to claims 15, 16, 19, 20, 22 and 23.
Therefore, this appeal is now only directed to the rejection
of claims 15, 16, 19, 20, 22 and 23.
The disclosed invention pertains to an apparatus for
measuring a traveling direction of a vehicle. More
particularly, the outputs of a geomagnetic sensor mounted on
the vehicle are cyclically obtained, and a deviation is
determined between the sensor output and a standard azimuth
circle for each cycle. The various cycles are weighted based
on the calculated deviations such that current cycle values
are given a smaller weight than prior cycle values as the
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