Appeal No. 2002-1313 Page 3
Application No. 09/282,590
displaying a three dimensional representation of a modifier to be
applied to said object for altering a shape of said object in association with
the representation of the object, the representation of the modifier having
a shape defined by one or more modifier parameters that are associated
with the modifier, and the representation of the modifier having a shape
indicating an approximate resulting shape of the object when the modifier
is applied to the object;
receiving a selection corresponding to a change to one of the
modifier parameters;
re-displaying said three dimensional representation of said modifier
based on the changed modifier parameters;
applying said modifier to said object; and
generating and displaying a second three dimensional
representation of said object from said object and said modifier, wherein
said second three dimensional representation of said object is deformed
with respect to said first three dimensional representation.
Claims 1, 2, 4-10, 16, and 18-20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as
anticipated by U.S. Patent No. 5,583,977 (“Seidl”). Claims 3, 11-15, and 17 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as obvious over Seidl in view of Lau-Kee et al., VPL:
An Active, Declarative Visual Programming System, Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on
Visual Languages, Oct. 1991 (“Lau-Kee”).
OPINION
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