Appeal No. 2003-1227
Application No. 09/049,161
dimensional...space, with respect to a given plane or other
reference.” With this definition in mind, it appears to us that
this is met by the disclosure of Anderson because, in addition to
position and orientation, Anderson mentions that real-time
virtual reality (VR) modelling “(e.g., 3-D geometrical)” (column
3, line 8) is employed (also see column 4, line 19 and column 5,
line 2). Since Anderson describes the structure in terms of its
alignment in “three-dimensional...space,” Anderson appears to
teach or suggest consideration of the “attitude” of the
structure, as claimed. Also note the reference to “x, y, z
coordinates,” at column 17, lines 48-49, implying a 3-D attitude
consideration.
That having been said, we do not find any description or
suggestion by Anderson of displaying to a user a visual graphical
representation of a desired position, orientation and attitude of
the structure, as required by independent claim 11. While
Anderson does appear to disclose a desired position and a present
position (column 19, lines 8-11: “The function of the GPS base
station computer 87 is to compare its known position (stored in
its memory) with its coordinate position computed using the GPS
satellite signals” (emphasis added) [known position is the
desired position and computed position is the present position]),
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