Appeal No. 1996-4030
Application 08/104,462
an analogous calculation which would lead to the alignment
transformation.
On page 4 of the answer, the Examiner argues that it
would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art to
set the variable n in Huttenlocher's method to 4. The
Examiner points out that on page 209, Huttenlocher does
suggest the use of the four image points. Furthermore, the
Examiner points out that Horaud teaches a method of using four
or more points.
The Federal Circuit reasons in Para-Ordnance Mfg.
Inc. v. SGS Importers Int'l Inc., 73 F.3d 1085, 1088-89, 37
USPQ2d
1237, 1239-40 (Fed. Cir. 1995), cert. denied, 117 S.Ct. 80
(1996), that for the determination of obviousness, the court
must answer whether one of ordinary skill in the art who sets
out to solve the problem and who had before him in his
workshop the prior art, would have been reasonably expected to
use the solution that is claimed by the Appellants.
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