Appeal No. 2004-2295
Application No. 09/628,396
Claim 10 sets forth a moveable closure assembly comprising,
inter alia, a moveable closure member, an emitter, a receiver,
and a controller, with the controller operable to construct a map
signature of a signal received by the receiver, and with the map
signature having a first graphical shape representative of known
obstructions normally within a defined field such that insertion
of an unknown object within the defined field produces a
variation from the first graphical shape.
Claim 14 addresses a method of detecting an object in a
moveable closure path comprising the steps of; transmitting a
signal within a defined field, said defined field adjacent a
closure path of a moveable closure member; receiving said signal
as transmitted within said defined field; mapping said signal
received in said step (2) as a first graphical shape
representative of known obstructions normally within said defined
field; and identifying a variation in said graphical shape of
said step (3).
The examiner concluded that the content of each of
independent claims 1, 10, and 14 is anticipated by the Zhang
reference (Paper No. 11). In our remand (Paper No. 21), the
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