Appeal No. 2003-1121
Application 09/189,179
OPINION
We reverse the aforementioned rejections. We need to
address only the broadest independent claim, i.e., claim 17. The
examiner does not rely upon Leysieffer and King for any
disclosure that remedies the deficiency in Fisher and Fallacaro
as to the broadest claim.
Fisher discloses a system for visceral interaction of a user
with a surrounding virtual environment through gesture technology
(page 4). Fisher discloses (pages 4-6):
For tactile interaction with the displayed three
dimensional environment, the user wears lightweight
glove-like devices that transmit data-records of arm,
hand and finger shape and position to a host computer.
The gloves are instrumented with flex-sensing devices
at each finger joint, between fingers and across the
palm of the hand (see Fig. 7). Motion tracking sensors
like that described for tracking head motion are
mounted on each glove to transmit position and
orientation of the hands and arms to the host system
(see Fig. 8). One application of this technology is to
provide a three-dimensional cursor in the displayed
environment. And, in coordination with connected
speech recognition technology, the hand and arm gesture
information is used to effect indicated gestures in the
synthesized or remote environment (e.g. control of
robotic arms and end-effectors, and associated control
of auxiliary camera positions). Current
implementations of this research include a three-
dimensional graphic database of an articulated hand
that, in the display environment, is spatially
correspondent with the viewer’s real hand and is
directly controlled by the instrumented glove device
(see Fig. 9). With this capability, the operator can
pick-up and manipulate virtual objects that appear in
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