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               The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written                 
                        for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.                        
                                                                                 Paper No. 28             

                            UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                     
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                                 BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                       
                                           AND INTERFERENCES                                              
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                  Ex parte KEITH JAMES HANNA, PETER J. BURT, SCHMUEL PELEG,                               
                    DOUGLAS F. DIXON, DEEPAM MISHRA, LAMBERT E. WIXSON,                                   
                      ROBERT MANDLEBAUM, PETER COYLE and JOSHUA R. HERMAN                                 
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                                         Appeal No. 2001-1230                                             
                                      Application No. 08/759,346                                          
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                                                 ON BRIEF                                                 
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            Before HAIRSTON, LEVY, and SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judges.                              
            SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                          


                                           DECISION ON APPEAL                                             
                  This is a decision on appeal from the Examiner’s final                                  
            rejection of claims 1-16, which are all of the claims pending in                              
            this application.                                                                             
                  We reverse.                                                                             
                                              BACKGROUND                                                  
                  Appellants’ invention is directed to a system that obtains                              
            and analyzes images of an object in a scene.  The system uses a                               
            wide field of view (WFOV) imager for locating the object in a                                 
            captured image of the scene and a narrow field of view (NFOV)                                 






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