Appeal No. 1998-0872
Application No. 08/438,479 Page 17
Smart, although the color of the icon will change, there is no
change in the pictorial representation, and that Smart merely
shows an alarm condition when it occurs, which does not tell the
operator whether the door is open or closed at any particular
time.
The examiner's position (answer, page 16) is that Smart
discloses that the objects are being shown in their actual
position in the real world, and that "it is considered obvious
that the color indication of the objects and the object positions
have some sort of correlation and for that matter there is a
pictorial representation of the objects in any color coded
condition."
We find that Smart discloses (page 3) that objects such as
doors "are shown on the map as icons or symbols denoting their
actual positions in the real world." We find that the
disclosure that icons denote the "actual positions" of objects in
the real world suggests that the icons can represent the objects
actual position i.e., open/closed, and not just the location of a
door in a building. Because Smart uses the phrase "actual
position" instead of perhaps "actual location" the language used
would have suggested to an artisan the actual open/closed
position of an output device such as a door or window. In
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