Appeal No. 2000-0431 Page 2
Application No. 08/789,127
identify and record an area not yet traversed, and then
traversing this area.
Claim 11, which is representative, follows:
11. A moving apparatus for running and moving on a
floor, covering an entire accessible surface of said
floor, comprising:
running control means for controlling the moving
apparatus to run along running lanes in a zigzag
fashion, whereby the moving apparatus repeatedly; runs
in one of a plurality of lanes in a first direction,
moves a prescribed pitch in a second direction
perpendicular to said first direction, and thereafter
runs in one of a plurality of lanes in a third
direction opposite to said first direction;
setting means for setting a region where said
moving apparatus moves;
input means for inputting a position where said
moving apparatus completes movement in said set region;
and
operation means for determining the prescribed
pitch employed by said running control means based on
the region set by said setting means and the position
input by said input means.
The prior art applied by the examiner in rejecting the
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