Appeal No. 96-1920
Application 08/218,136
estimating a driving skill of a vehicle operator nor the
modification of a property of the controlling means according
to this estimated driving skill. Furukawa merely uses the
graphs of three skill levels to select a steered angle ratio
for use with all drivers. The skill of any single driver is
not measured in Furukawa, and consequently, no modification of
the control in Furukawa is based on the individual skill level
of the vehicle
operator. Therefore, Furukawa does not fully meet the
invention of independent claim 1. Therefore, we do not
sustain this rejection of claims 1, 3 and 5-7.
We now consider the rejection of claims 4 and 10 under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over the teachings of Furukawa
taken alone and the rejection of claims 8, 9, 11 and 12 under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over the teachings of Furukawa
in view of Nishikawa. Each of independent claims 1, 8 and 9
on appeal recites either a means for estimating a driving
skill of
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