Appeal No. 1996-2047
Application No. 08/274,141
of “destructuring the image of the scene, for a given lapse of
time, by making inconsistent changes to the camera settings
including modifying the focus of the camera and modifying a
direction of the camera line of sight.” Appellants’ claim 8
recites the step of destructuring, during a predetermined time
period, an image of a scene by defocusing the image and
modifying a direction of the line of sight of the camera.
Appellants’ remaining independent claim, claim 10, recites
means for destructuring, during a predetermined time period,
an image of a scene by defocusing the image and modifying a
direction of the line of sight of the camera. Therefore,
Appellants’ claims require that when the scene image is
destructured, not only is the focus of the camera changed, but
the line of sight of the camera is also changed.
Turning to Hanafusa, we find that Hanafusa teaches in the
abstract that the scene on the infrared detector element is
defocused or placed out of focus by adjusting the focusing
lens. In particular, we note in column 3, lines 20 through
25, Hanafusa teaches that in monitoring a distant scene, the
focusing lens 5 is adjusted so as to focus a near-most
distance while the camera is looking at a distant scene, or in
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