Appeal 2007-1318
Application 09/726,779
FINDINGS OF FACT
The record supports the following findings of fact (FF) by a
preponderance of the evidence.
1. Blowers describes a system and method for interactively developing a
graphical control-flow structure and associated application software
for use in a machine vision system without the user having to write
any code. (Abstract; col. 1, ll. 21-25; col. 2, ll. 53-55.) Application
software is formed in response to user commands "without the user
writing any of the application software." (Abstract.) Rather than
writing code, Blowers teaches that the user "sets variables that the
machine vision tools require interactively." (Col. 2, ll. 54-55.)
2. Blowers teaches that "[a] design engine or task sequencer engine 46 is
used to configure and test the flow and design of the application
software as illustrated by an exemplary task sequencer list of FIG. 6."
(Col. 8, ll. 61-63; Fig. 3.) "Graphical representations or icons are
selected from the tool boxes of FIG. 5 which correspond to desired
functional tasks and are linked into the tree structure of FIG. 6 by a
task sequencer interface 50 in the desired locations." (Col. 8,
ll. 64-67; Figs. 5-6.) Parameters, which control the way the function
generates results, can be configured for each task as shown in
Figures 7 and 8. (Col. 9, ll. 7-10.) "Once the desired sequence has
been created, it can be stored or saved in a condensed method within
an inspection sequence file 52 which is usable by the engine 46."
(Col. 9, ll. 13-15.) Blowers also teaches that "[t]he engine 46 takes
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