Appeal No. 98-2805
Application 08/663,849
which the examiner has indicated contain allowable subject
matter. Thus, given their dependency, it is apparent that
claims 4 and 14 would likewise contain the same allowable
subject matter as the claims from which they depend, and
accordingly would not be anticipated by Hattori. For that
reason, the examiner’s rejection of claims 4 and 14 under 35
U.S.C. § 102(e) will not be sustained.
As for the examiner’s rejection of independent claims 1
and 9 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) based on Hattori, we note that
Hattori discloses a planetarium (Fig. 4) which uses a
plurality of mutually separate and independent projection
apparatus (2 and 3a through 3g) for projecting a star field,
the sun, moon and planets. Each of the individual projection
apparatus includes a high performance CPU. As indicated in
the Abstract and in column 5, lines 15-49, time, date and
viewer coordinates relating to a first viewpoint are inputted
by the console (4) to the host CPU (41). The host computer
then computes the Julian calender date, and transmits the
results to the plurality of high performance CPUs in parallel.
Each high performance CPU calculates in parallel data relative
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