Appeal No. 96-2994
Application 08/282,413
new relative positions of said first object and said second
object as a result of the relative movement of said first
object and said second object to movement of a viewer within
said virtual reality environment by selectively obscuring said
first object and said second object according to the relative
position of said first
object and said second object in said virtual reality
environment to an observation point of said viewer in said
virtual reality environment.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Corthout et al. (Corthout) 4,631,690 Dec. 23, 1986
Bentley, “Multidimensional Binary Search Trees Used for
Associative Searching,” Communications of the ACM, Volume 18,
Number 9, Sept. 1975, pages 509-517.
Fuchs et al. (Fuchs), “Near Real-Time Shaded Display of Rigid
Objects,” Computer Graphics, Volume 17, Number 3, July 1983,
pages 65-72.
Claims 1-26 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103. As
evidence of obviousness the examiner offers Corthout in view
of Bentley or Fuchs.
Rather than repeat the arguments of appellants or the
examiner, we make reference to the briefs and the answer for
the respective details thereof.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the subject matter on
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