Appeal No. 2002-1474 Page 12
Application No. 09/002,927
(col. 4, lines 63-65). In a second embodiment, a reduced amount
of information is communicated, where each beacon transmitter is
designed to transmit only traffic information of monitored roads
which are actually congested. No information is transmitted on
the monitored roads which are not congested (col. 5, lines 3-15).
Figures 11 and 8 include an arrow which displays the user's
vehicle and direction of travel, along with a normal road map
display. Figure 7 shows different representations of road
congestion.
From our review of Furuya, we find that although Furuya
discloses a display with road images and congestion, along with
an indication of the user's vehicle and travel direction, we find
no evidence that the traffic information received by
communication means 101 includes image data.
Turning to Liebesny, we find that television cameras 17 are
used at key check points to provide raw traffic data to citywide
coordinators 15 (col. 3, lines 45 and 46, and col. 8, lines 22-26
and figure 1). Although we find from the disclosure of
television cameras that the images provided will be video images,
we agree with appellants that the images from the cameras are not
received by the video receivers in the user's vehicle (figures 1
and 4) but rather are input to the system provider through
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