Appeal No.1996-1411
Application No. 08/237,393
Before JERRY SMITH, DIXON and LALL Administrative Patent
Judges.
JERRY SMITH, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134
from the examiner’s rejection of claims 11-18 and 21. Claims
1-10 and 20 have been cancelled. Claim 19 has been indicated
as containing allowable subject matter and is merely objected
to for depending from a rejected claim. An amendment after
final rejection was filed on June 2, 1995 and was entered by
the examiner.
The disclosed invention pertains to a method and
apparatus for generating animation by computer by combining
prestored images of an object in various three-dimensional
orientations with movements of an existing self-movable
object. The movements of the object are measured and are used
to calculate successive orientation angles of movement for
each of several image sections. The successive orientation
angles are used to address the prestored images which were
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