Appeal No. 96-1328 Page 4
Application No. 07/904,912
Watanabe discloses a moving object detection system for
discerning a moving object in a given environment as part of,
e.g., a robotic vision system.
Mills discloses a video editing system and a technique
for directly manipulating video frame images to edit clips of
video information.
DISCUSSION
During prosecution, claims are given their broadest
reasonable interpretation consistent with the specification.
In re Sneed, 710 F.2d 1544, 1548, 218 USPQ 385, 388 (Fed. Cir.
1983). We do not find the examiner's interpretation of these
claims to be reasonable. He has ignored, without explanation,
preamble language and elements subject to section 112[6]. As
a consequence, the subject matter that the examiner deems to
have been obvious has little relationship to the subject
matter disclosed in the specification and set forth in the
claims as it would be understood by one skilled in the art.
One skilled in the art would understand the claims to be
necessarily directed to a motion image retrieval system using
motions for queries. Nothing in the cited art individually or
in combination teaches or suggests this subject matter.
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