Appeal No. 2002-1940
Application 08/932,649
As to these noted deficiencies in Aviv, the examiner
presents Kuo as teaching the missing features in Aviv. The
examiner expresses his rationale beginning at the bottom of page
3 as to the combinability and asserts that Kuo teaches the use of
the determined prestored topographic information at various
locations in that reference. It appears to us that the
examiner's "use" analysis here is somewhat weakly based, but we
agree with the rationale of the obviousness of incorporating the
teachings of Kuo relating to topographic information into those
of Aviv in order to evaluate the images and accurately change the
camera shooting conditions in performing a tracking function as
expressed in the sentence bridging pages 3 and 4 of the
previously noted Office action.
However, we are persuaded by the examiner's rationale
expressed at pages 7 and 8 of the answer setting forth more
persuasively essentially three rationales for the motivation
within the art for combining Kuo into Aviv. There the examiner
makes reference to Aviv's teachings of multi camera environments
at column 10 and the ability of Aviv's tracking to be able to
take into account azimuth elevation information at column 5,
lines 30-40. In a broader context, substantially all the
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