The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not
written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 25
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte JENNIFER L. RANDALL
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Appeal No. 2001-0516
Application No. 08/834,073
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ON BRIEF
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Before KRASS, RUGGIERO, and GROSS, Administrative Patent Judges.
RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on the appeal from the final rejection of
claims 1-17 and 19, which are all of the claims pending in the
present application. Claim 18 has been canceled.
The claimed invention relates to a surveillance system and a
method for selective area motion detection. A motion detector is
provided for detecting motion within a selected field of view of
a video camera, the motion detector including a mask for masking
from motion detection selected portions of the video camera’s
field of view. More particularly, a target mask image from among
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