Appeal No. 96-1920
Application 08/218,136
skill of the operator.
We will sustain this rejection of claim 1. Takahashi
’785 discloses one embodiment for controlling vehicle
steering, a second embodiment for controlling vehicle braking,
and a third embodiment for controlling vehicle acceleration.
We are concerned only with the vehicle steering embodiment.
Takahashi ’785 discloses that his control system receives
steering angle 2 as an input signal and produces a control
signal as an output signal based on a transfer function
[column 4, lines 42-46]. The transfer function
characteristics are adjusted based on estimated steering
characteristics determined by monitoring actual operations
executed by a driver.
We consider the commanded steering angle in Takahashi
’785 to be an operating condition of the vehicle. Since
steering angle is a demand for yaw movement, we consider the
steering angle in Takahashi ’785 to meet the claim recitation
of at least one of a yaw movement and a lateral acceleration
of the vehicle. Appellant’s argument that Takahashi ’785 does
not disclose yaw rate is not commensurate in scope with the
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