Appeal No. 2003-1545
Application 09/292,499
We also agree with appellants that Irani does not mention
any object of interest nor of selecting a first point near the
lower end of such an object of interest. This may be because
Irani is interested in indexing image information rather than in
monitoring an area for security purposes as in the instant
invention. But, in any event, for whatever reason, Irani simply
does not suggest this claim limitation.
Moreover, we do not find Wixson to supply any of the
deficiencies of Irani. Merely because Wixson specifies a
fixation point in a reference image does not suggest identifying
a first and second region as recited in instant claims 1 and 13.
Further, we find nothing in Wixson that indicates that warp
transformation parameters are formed between two operator
specified regions as in the instant claims. In other words,
while Wixson may, at best, indicate that there needs to be some
definition of warp transformation parameters, it clearly does not
suggest the specific steps of the instant claims wherein an
operator identifies a first region which corresponds to a
selected portion of the monitored area as viewed in the reference
image, an operator identifies a second region which corresponds
to the selected portion as viewed on the map, and warp
transformation parameters are defined for translating a selected
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