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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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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