Appeal No. 1997-2704
Application 08/363,607
personnel at a remote location so that the digital data prompts a response from the police station to
provide response data for the police officer.” Thus, claim 16 requires a
communication between the police car and a remote location which, in turn, provides a response to the
police officer. The claim further requires, inter alia, that the received response data be converted to a
suitable image “by an output device carried by the police officer.” Camras provides for no such
communication between a car and a remote location nor does the reference provide for communication
between a remote location and an individual via a device carried by that individual.
The examiner then relies on Roth, in combination with Camras. Roth is relied on for a teaching
of a two-way transceiver for use in vehicles, like police cars, although the preferred embodiment is
directed to identifying taxi cab passengers. More particularly, an image from a fixed camera 10, in
Roth’s Figure 2, is transmitted from the vehicle to a base station 28 in Figure 1. However, no response
data is sent back to the vehicle in response to any inquiry from the cab driver. Rather, in Roth, image
data is stored at the remote location for possible use in a criminal investigation, at a later time, if need
be.
The examiner then concludes, in view of the Camras and Roth teachings, that it would have
been obvious to provide a two-way radio communication between a police vehicle that receives data
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