Appeal No. 2002-1940
Application 08/932,649
discussion at Aviv's column 5 is persuasive as to this
observation of the examiner. Further, the most persuasive
rationale of the examiner appears to be based upon the examiner's
discussion at the bottom of page 7 of the answer, where the
examiner makes note of Aviv teaching various environments of use
for his intruder analysis system. These include column 5, lines
55 to 63 as well as column 9, lines 35 through 47. Based upon
our study of these portions, we agree with the examiner's
rationale that these suitable applications of Aviv's teachings
include the use of structures of a high vantage point such as a
utility tower or traffic light support tower which would be high
enough to where topographic data would be a consideration in a
proper analysis of an accurate detection and surveillance system.
On the one hand, the artisan would have appreciated that
there is an apparent flat plane perspective in the depiction of
the image analysis operations in Figures 2 and 3 of Aviv, yet, on
the other hand no provisions are made within Aviv to include an
analysis from the higher perspectives of elevated camera
locations when they are necessary or chosen for a particular
elevated application noted earlier. Because Kuo's teachings
relate specifically to topographic mapping operations, the
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