Appeal No. 1997-4352
Application No. 08/422,689
determining a plurality of locations, orientations, and
forms of said objects in a temporal sequence corresponding to
said description of said objects for at least two different
times;
generating a plurality of the graphical representations
of said objects in said temporal sequence; and
displaying said plurality of the graphical
representations of said objects to illustrate changes between
different time periods, wherein the displayed graphical
representations allow the person to review the graphical
representations in real time immediately after being recorded
so as to allow the operator to
make changes and modifications to the graphical
representations based on subsequent verbal statements made by
the person.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Simone, “Autodesk Inc.: Autodesk Animator Pro and Autodesk
Multimedia Explorer,” PC Magazine, vol. 11, no. 14, p. 452,
August 1992.
Kantor, “Computing in the Courtroom,” PC Magazine, vol. 12,
no. 4, p. 32, February 23, 1993.
Claims 15 through 34 and 36 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C.
§ 103 as unpatentable over Kantor in view of Simone.
Reference is made to the brief and answer for the
respective positions of appellants and the examiner.
OPINION
At the outset, we note that while the effective filing
date of the instant application is August 6, 1992, based on
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