Appeal No. 1999-0296 Page 3
Application No. 08/483,552
avoiding vertical shift between corresponding points
of a left view and a right view of said stereo pair,
comprising:
maintaining the optical axes of a left camera
and of a right camera substantially parallel, and
adjusting disparity while adjusting distance to
a target object to avoid loss of stereo effect.
The prior art applied in rejecting the claims follows:
Robinson 4,751,570 June 14,
1988
Anderson et al. (Anderson) 5,179,441 Jan. 12,
1993.
Claims 1-7 and 9-15 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being obvious over Robinson in view of Anderson. Claim 8
stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated
by Robinson. Claim 16 stands rejected under § 103(a) as being
obvious over Robinson. Rather than reiterate the arguments of
the appellants or examiner in toto, we refer the reader to the
briefs and answer for the respective details thereof.
OPINION
After considering the record, we are persuaded that the
examiner erred in rejecting claims 1-4 and 6-16 but not in
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