Appeal No. 97-0055
Application 08/430,111
the examiner.
OPINION
All of the rejections are reversed.
The examiner’s rationale (Answer, pages 3 and 4) for making the two rejections is as follows:
As per method claims 22 and 31, the appellant’s [sic] step of providing is
taught by Sakamoto’s production process administration system. Within Sakamoto’s
system a plurality of correction stations are provided with CRT display devices to
correct automobiles being assembled and manufactured. The appellant’s [sic] use of
text information and computer graphics images is taught by Sakamoto’s disclosure of
figure 5 which shows a graphical image and a textual message area. Note that the
correction controller 70 displays the correction operations to be performed (see column
18). The appellant’s [sic] machine readable instructions for the computer to display
images how to assemble the components is taught by Sakamoto’s disclosure of finding
imperfections in the automobile and displaying them as shown in figure 5. The
appellant’s [sic] obtaining step is taught by the reference data employed in the system of
Sakamoto. Defects are detected by the system which are not within proper guidelines
and need to be corrected. The appellant’s [sic] applying step is taught by the use [sic]
Sakamoto reference in the manual correction of assembly errors found by the system in
manual correction of the errors. The appellant’s [sic] limitation that variable parameters
are capable of representing different component information is taught by Sakamoto’s
disclosure of displaying the type of part depending upon the type of automobile being
manufactured and the type of defect (see figure 5 and column 9 line 45-column 10 line
8).
We agree with the examiner that Sakamoto’s production process administration system is
devoted to “finding imperfections in the automobile and displaying them as shown in figure 5.” We also
agree with the examiner that in Sakamoto “a plurality of correction stations are provided with CRT
display devices to correct automobiles being assembled and manufactured.” We can not take issue
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