Appeal No. 1999-1442
Application No. 08/610,681
views of the three-dimensional object which have been
prestored in the memory of the rendering system. Similarly,
claim 13 requires that only the surface maps are used to
render a three-dimensional object image. The examiner seems
to suggest that as long as the final image on a display is the
image of the three-dimensional object, then it does not matter
what apparatus elements or what method steps are used to
create the final image. We disagree. There may be, and
usually are, many ways and/or many arrangements of apparatus
elements to achieve the final product or final result, and
each method or apparatus could be worthy of a patent.
Therefore, we reverse the examiner’s rejection of claims 1, 3
and 5 as being obvious over Redmann.
With respect to claims 2, 4, 6, and 13 through 19, the
examiner adds APA to Redmann. However since APA does not
address the deficiency noted above in Redmann, the rejection
of these claims as being obvious over Redmann and APA is also
reversed.
The decision of the examiner rejecting claims 1 through
6, and 13 through 19 is reversed.
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