Appeal No. 2001-1230
Application No. 08/759,346
First, to address the Examiner’s assertion that the claims
do not recite “capturing a narrow field of view image that
contains the label,” we note that the claims require that the
image of the scene be captured by the wide field of view camera
whereas the image of the object in the scene is captured by the
narrow field of view camera. Therefore, if the image of the top
surface of the package captured by the low resolution cameras of
Holeva can be similar to the claimed wide field of view image of
the scene, the high resolution image of the object must be the
image of the label. Thus, the analysis should be directed to
determining whether the camera for capturing the high resolution
image of the label necessarily has a narrower field of view than
the low resolution cameras.
Our review of Holeva confirms that the reference relates to
a method and an apparatus for determining the range of objects
and for focusing a camera. As depicted in Figure 1, low-
resolution cameras 104 generate two images, having different
focal gradient, from the top of package 112 as the package is
moved on conveyor belt 102 (col. 4, lines 24-29). The images are
processed by focus sensing processor 106 to calculate the focus
distance for high-resolution camera 110 (col. 4, lines 30-35)
which generates a high-resolution image of the top of the package
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