Appeal No. 95-1866
Application 07/878,500
Ando discloses an on-board navigation system for motor
vehicles. The system controller 4, which is responsive to
signals from a compass direction sensor 1, a distance sensor 2,
and a GPS sensor 3, retrieves the surrounding road map
information from memory device 10 and causes that information and
the current vehicle location to be displayed by display unit 12
(col. 2, line 56 to col. 3, line 12). Ando does not disclose
means for recording the sensor data. The examiner's position
appears to be that it would have been obvious in view of Benn to
add a sensor data recording and playback means to Ando's land
vehicle:
It would have been obvious to utilize vehicle
location sensors as suggested by Ando in a vehicle
stored data playback device, in order that accurate
vehicle location could have been displayed using a
system as disclosed by the teachings of Benn, the
specific sensors used by Ando merely being a routine
matter of design choice based on what specific type of
vehicle the playback device was to be used in. It is
noted that land vehicle[s] would have benefitted [sic]
from playback means for the same reasons as a flight
vehicle, namely, to study the accuracy of previously
recorded data. [Final Office action at 4.]
Appellant responded to this argument by correctly noting that
Benn does not suggest using his system to study the accuracy of
recorded data; instead, his system simply converts recorded data
into engineering values for display in a graphical format or a
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