Appeal No. 1999-2069
Application 08/397,639
The Examiner relies on the following prior art:
Komaki et al. (Komaki) 4,356,398 October 26, 1982
Weiman 5,063,604 November 5, 1991
Kano et al. (Kano) 5,359,513 October 25, 1994
(filed November 25, 1992)
Smilansky et al. (Smilansky) 5,495,535 February 27, 1996
(§ 102(e) date September 24, 1993)
Frankot et al. (Frankot) 5,495,540 February 27, 1996
(effective filing date February 8, 1993)
Barnea et al. (Barnea), A Class of Algorithms for Fast
Digital Image Registration, IEEE Trans. on Computers,
Vol. C-21, No. 2, February 1972, pp. 179-186.
Claims 1 and 3 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Kano in view of Smilansky or Frankot.
Claim 2 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Kano in view of Smilansky or Frankot as applied
in the rejection of claim 1, further in view of Komaki.
Claim 4 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Kano in view of Smilansky or Frankot as applied
in the rejection of claim 1, further in view of Barnea.
Claim 5 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Kano in view of Smilansky or Frankot as applied
in the rejection of claim 1, further in view of Weiman.
We refer to the final rejection (Paper No. 8) (pages
referred to as "FR__") and the examiner's answer (Paper No. 21)
(pages referred to as "EA__") for a statement of the Examiner's
position, and to the appeal brief (Paper No. 19) (pages referred
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