Appeal No. 1998-0872
Application No. 08/438,479 Page 19
(Group V). The examiner's position (answer, page 17) is that the
center screen of the workstation of Smart, which displays a map
of the surveillance area, may be considered a sub-image control
palette. Appellant asserts (brief, page 16 and reply brief, page
5) that a map of a surveillance environment is not a sub-image
control palette, and that neither Smart nor Williams shows or
suggests using a sub-image control palette on the graphical image
to control the functions of a security device.
We find that in Smart, the center screen, in addition to
displaying maps, is used to control and monitor equipment. In
addition, (page 3) upon selecting an object on the graphical
display using the mouse, a control menu is displayed in a window
overlapping the map. Smart also discloses that the control menus
are overlaid on the map (page 1), and that (page 3) the graphical
image (map) can continue to be manipulated even though the
control menu is displayed. In contrast to claim 102, claim 106
does not require that the sub-image control palette shows a
graphical representation of an entire area on a small scale. As
broadly drafted, claim 106 only requires that a palette is
superimposed on the graphical image and that the palette controls
a sub-image from the display, which is defined in claim 98, from
which claim 106 depends, as having one or more monitors. Because
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