Appeal No. 1997-4052
Application 08/479,893
apparent. At page 177, Liu discloses that “The process is simple
and efficient, involving no complicated 3D surface data
computation and 3D object representation.” Accordingly, no merit
is seen in the position that
one of ordinary skill in the art would have combined Miller to the
model created by Liu, because Liu is concerned with recognizing a
model, not creating a model.
Appellant further argues to the effect that even assuming
there were motivation to combine the teachings of Miller, Liu and
Margalit, the combination would not meet the claimed invention.
We agree. As urged by appellant, there is simply no showing that
any of the references teaches using a visibility attribute from
multiple 2-D images to determine whether points are on the surface
of an object
and then using those points determined to be on the surface of the
object to generate a model of the object.
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