Appeal No. 2002-1474 Page 2
Application No. 09/002,927
BACKGROUND
Appellants' invention relates to a vehicle information
display device. An understanding of the invention can be derived
from a reading of exemplary claim 1, which is reproduced as
follows:
1. A vehicle information display apparatus which comprises:
a vehicle information receiving means for receiving vehicle
information indicating a condition other than vehicle position,
said vehicle information receiving means operable to receive said
vehicle information in the form of image data,
a present position detecting means for detecting the present
position of a driver’s own vehicle,
a display means for displaying information, and
a control means which is so adapted that when the vehicle
information receiving means receive a vehicle information in the
form of image data, the vehicle information in the form of image
data is displayed, and the present position of the driver’s own
vehicle is displayed in the form of characters or a present
position indicating mark on a displayed map.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Liebesny et al. 5,131,020 Jul. 14, 1992
(Liebesny)
Furuya 5,257,023 Oct. 26, 1993
Nanba et al. 5,874,905 Feb. 23, 1999
(Nanba) (filed Aug. 4, 1996)
Claims 1-14 and 18-27 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Furuya in view of Liebesny.
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