Appeal No. 2002-0638
Application 08/932,239
conventional 3D depictions. All these considerations appear to
us to broaden the interpretation of the subject matter of
representative claim 25 on appeal well beyond that which the
examiner has even considered, such as to encompass the subject
matter of the prior art that is generally known with respect to
scroll bars, such as a perspective view or camera location
depicting information only in a traditional two dimensional sense
in physical space, and expanded upon to the third dimension of
time to the extinct otherwise recited in this claim. As to the
stated rejection, we agree with the examiner's detailed
consideration of Wagstaff's teachings outlined at page 4 of the
answer as it relates principally to page 2 of this reference.
The examiner and we recognize, as stated at the top of page 5 of
the answer, that the reference does not specifically or
explicitly indicate that the referencing of the scroll bar
discussed therein is to a coordinate system for a camera or a
virtual world.
Wagstaff's teachings are in the context of Apple Computer's
Power Mac 9500/132 model which inherently has means of displaying
scroll bars at least in two dimensional physical space, with a
third dimension added to account for time. The focus of the
teachings in Wagstaff, on the other hand, is to a three
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