Appeal No. 97-2764
Application No. 08/354,018
Krieg does not describe how an operator's position is
calculated. However, Krieg discloses in column 5, lines 42-
56,
that the details of how remote object positioning is
accomplished can be found in four additional patents, none of
which uses averaging signal strengths to calculate the
operator's position. Therefore, by incorporating the four2
patents, Krieg suggests that the position of the object is
determined by methods other than averaging. Furthermore, as
indicated by appellants (Brief, page 3), no prior art of
record discloses a method of nor a means for averaging signal
strengths to ascertain the position of an object.
Consequently, it is unclear to us how the examiner can
conclude that Krieg must be calculating components of the
2Kuipers, in patent number 3,983,474, describes determining the
orientation of an object using coordinate transformation. Raab discloses, in
columns 8 and 9 of patent number 4,054,881, that the x, y, and z coordinates
of the object can be calculated by measuring the signal strengths to determine
distances, creating a system of three equations with three unknowns relating
the power measurements, and solving the system of equations to obtain squared
normalized rectangular coordinates. Kuipers discloses in patent number
4,298,874 an iterative computational method of determining the orientation of
an object. Raab explains, starting at line 49 of column 31 of patent number
4,314,251, that the position of an object is calculated using squared
magnitudes and dot products of the sensor output vectors.
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