Appeal No. 1998-0872
Application No. 08/438,479 Page 13
tilt, and zoom controls and that the operator can zoom into
portions of the map.
Appellant asserts (brief, page 12) that neither Smart nor
Williams shows the feature of controlling the camera pan, tilt,
and zoom functions directly from the graphical image. Appellant
further asserts (reply brief, pages 3 and 4) that merely because
smart suggests the presence of pan, tilt, and zoom controls does
not suggest that these functions are controlled from the
graphical image.
From our review of Smart, we find that Smart does not teach
controlling the pan, tilt, and zoom functions from the graphical
image. We find that Smart discloses (page 3) that a map is
continuously displayed on the main (center) control screen; that
objects such as cameras are shown on the map as icons; that an
operator may display camera images by selecting the appropriate
camera icon on the graphics display (map); that many cameras have
pan, tilt, and zoom capabilities; that an operator may freely
zoom into or out of selected portions of the map using the map
buttons, and that at any zoom level, the operator may pan in any
of four directions using scroll-type pan bars, and the disclosed
control of operations from the graphical display; that inputs are
generally performed using a mouse; that camera images are
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