Appeal No. 2000-0957
Application 06/344,455
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from
the final rejection of claims 1 and 16. Claims 2-4 and
17-19 have been indicated to be allowable if rewritten in
independent form to include all of the limitations of the
base claim and any intervening claims.
We affirm-in-part.
BACKGROUND
The invention is directed to an apparatus and method
for measuring the slant range S and altitude H of a target
in a bistatic radar system.2
Claim 1 is reproduced below.
1. A bistatic passive radar system for use in
conjunction with a host transmitter that is a
determinable distance D from the radar system, and
which includes means for determining the distance D, a
display and means for displaying video images of a
selected target, the position of the radar system and
the position of the transmitter on the display,
characterized by
"Bistatic radar" is defined as "[a] radar using2
antennas at different locations for transmission and
reception." The New IEEE Standard Dictionary of Electrical
and Electronics Terms (IEEE, Inc. 5th ed. 1993). "Bistatic
passive radar" is further discussed in U.S. Patent 4,281,327,
issued July 28, 1981, to L.M. Frazier (one of the co-inventors
of this application) and W.H. Johnson, at column 1, lines
6-36.
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