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               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               today was not written for publication and is not                       
               binding precedent of the Board.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. 15              

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
                                  ________________                                    
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
                                  ________________                                    
                  Ex parte FRANK Z. BRILL and BRUCE E. FLINCHBAUGH                    
                                  ________________                                    
                                Appeal No. 2003-1545                                  
                               Application 09/292,499                                 
                                  ________________                                    
                                      ON BRIEF                                        
                                  ________________                                    
          Before KRASS, JERRY SMITH and BARRETT, Administrative Patent                
          Judges.                                                                     
          KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         


                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of               
          claims 1-4, 6, 7 and 13-23.  Claims 9-12 and 24 have been allowed           
          by the examiner and claims 5 and 8 have been cancelled.                     
               The invention is directed to a monitoring system for mapping           
          the physical position of an object from a video image to a map of           
          a monitored area.                                                           


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