Appeal No. 1998-2869
Application 08/453,496
driving state of said driver is normal, based on said lateral
deviation behavior amount.” Appellants’ independent claim 12
recites “means for determining whether the driving state of
the driver is abnormal based on said lateral deviation
behavior amount.”
Turning to Appellants’ specification, page 6, line 13,
through page 10, line 25, we find that the corresponding
structure relates to a microcomputer 1 having functions which
are represented as functional blocks as shown in figure 1.
This corresponding structure of the driving state determining
means determines whether the driving state of the driver is
normal, irrespective of road surface conditions and
differences in the driving skill between individual drivers.
Such determination are made based on lateral deviation
behavior amounts, and on behavior references parameters shown
in figure 2b.
In view of the requirement of 35 U.S.C. § 112, sixth
paragraph, which requires us to interpret Appellants’ claimed
driver’s state determining means based upon the corresponding
structure as described in Appellants’ specification, we fail
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