Appeal No. 2003-1371 Page 11
Application No. 09/186,856
concurrently with the golfer on the same or separate simulated holes." Col. 2, ll. 34-39.
"Ball flight sensing means sense the flight of each of two independently hit golf balls,
one ball having been hit by the first golfer and the second ball having been hit by the
second right-handed golfer." Id. at ll. 39-42. "A computer concurrently computes the
flight and landing location of the first golf ball on a simulated first hole and the flight and
landing location of the second golf ball on the simulated same hole or a second hole. . .
." Id. at ll. 45-48. Because a player focuses on the location of his golf ball during a
game, seeking to sink the golf ball in one of "18 holes," col. 1, l. 33, we find that the
location of the golf ball during a game is his location in the game.
More specifically, the golf simulator system comprises "a dual-user golf-simulator
booth 50. . . ." Col. 5, ll. 17-18. "Next to the far end wall 58 of the booth is a large
vertical screen. . . ." Id. at ll. 34-35. "[W]hen both players are playing at approximately
the same location on the simulated hole, for example, when both players are on the tee
area," id. at ll. 35-40, "the image on the screen 80 is a single view of a particular hole on
a golf course." id. at ll. 36-37. When "the players are playing at different locations on
the same simulated hole, that is, at different distances from the hole and at different
angles with respect to the hole," col. 6, ll. 16-18, "[t]he projector 82 is displaying a split
image on the screen 80. The left half-image 92 corresponds to the view from the
location of the first golf ball being hit by the golfer 66. The right half-image 94
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