Appeal No. 1997-4052
Application 08/479,893
the locations on the three different 2-D images. A determination
is then made using the visibility attribute of whether each point
in the 3-D region is on the surface of the object. Finally, those
points identified to be on the surface of the object are used to
construct a model of the 3-D region for viewing images of the
region from multiple positions.
Opinion
At page 4 of the brief, appellant asserts that claims 21-39
stand or fall together.
Appellant argues that there is no suggestion or motivation
for combining the teachings found within Miller, Liu or Margalit
to arrive at appellant’s invention for using at least three
different 2-D images of an object to determine the probability of
whether a point lies on the surface of the 3-D object and for
using those points identified to be on the surface of the object
to build a model of the 3-D object.
With respect to this issue, at page 9 of the answer the
examiner asserts that Margalit teaches applying its probability
teachings to
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