Appeal No. 2002-1940
Application 08/932,649
Before we discuss the means for correcting and renewing
feature of claim 1 on appeal, this correcting and renewing is
disclosed as an object of the invention at specification page 3,
line 27 through page 4, line 5 and in detail in the Summary of
the Invention at specification, page 5, line 24 through page 9,
line 4. These portions of the Summary of the Invention make
clear that the renewing, argued to a great extent in the brief
and reply brief, is a simple adjustment, change, or correction or
perhaps an updating capability of the object quantity
information. In the context of Aviv, the teaching feature of the
image processor as well as the means for correcting and renewing
corresponds to the continued sampling and comparing operations
with respect to the initial database of information stored about
the objects discussed throughout Aviv.
On the other hand, as appellants rightly argue, and the
examiner correctly admits, there is no topographic store in Aviv
and therefore there can be no use in the correction and renewing
phrase of any topographic information. All this has meaning as
to the subject matter of claim 1 on appeal because the
topographic information is recited to be stored in advance. It
is also broadly "used" in the process of the means of correcting
and renewing.
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