Appeal No. 1997-3225
Application No. 08/351,218
by using computer modeling techniques to generate an image.
Reviewing Terzopoulos, pages 576 and 577, section E. we find
that the use of video frames of a subject is to generate data
for input to a synthesized model of the subject. The problem
to be solved by Appellants' invention concerns animating
images, specifically obtaining images to be used in the
animation. We find that one of ordinary skill in the art
would not look to Terzopoulos’s teaching of adjusting a
synthesized model based upon video of observed behavior, for a
teaching that video of a subject should be analyzed to obtain
images for animation. Accordingly, we conclude that
Terzopoulos was inappropriately combined with Lee and
Lavagetto.
We next consider the scope of each of the independent
claims.
Claims 35, 41, 44, 58, 59, and 70 are all independent
claims which contain limitations similar in scope to those of
claim 6 mentioned above. For example, representative claim 35
contains the limitation “determining some aspect of each image
. . . to
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