Appeal No. 1999-0479
Application No. 08/417,613
vehicle based upon recognition of facial features of the
driver of the vehicle (Brief, page 10).
Tamada uses an electronic license device 10 (Figures 1
and 2; column 3, lines 18 through 22) that stores the address,
the name, the birth date, the license number, and the code
number of the owner in memory 15. When the license device 10
is inserted into the readout section 22, and the code number
of the owner is entered via keyboard 23, the readout section
22 reads out the license data stored in the memory 15, and a
comparison is made between the information in memory 15 and
the information L1 previously stored in RAM 24B (column 3,
line 65 through column 4, line 14). If there is agreement
between the license data and the previously stored
information, then the engine can be started by the driver.
Tamada is silent concerning the use of facial information to
control the starting of the vehicle.
We agree with the examiner that Tamada is concerned with
vehicle security (Final rejection, page 4), but we do not
agree with the examiner that it would have been obvious to the
skilled artisan to apply such security teachings in Ando.
After all, the vehicle controls 20 through 30 in Ando (Figure
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