Appeal No. 2005-2272
Application 09/791,656
that a train is a motor vehicle. The examiner also responds that
it would have been obvious to the artisan to extend the airplane
teachings of Lee to boats and trains in order to provide
important information that is used in investigations [answer,
pages 9-14].
We sustain the examiner’s rejection of claims 1-9 for
essentially the reasons argued by the examiner in the answer.
Although the intent in Lee is not to record images of the
airspace in front of the airplane, we agree with the examiner
that a panoramic camera placed at the rear of the airplane to
record images across the wings of the aircraft is also directed
at the airspace in front of the airplane as shown in Figure 2D.
Lee also teaches that recording images of an airplane is helpful
in aiding the investigation of an airplane disaster. Joao
teaches recording images of airplanes, boats and any
“electrically powered and/or propelled vehicles” [column 18,
lines 39-40]. We agree with the examiner that it would have been
obvious to the artisan to record images of boats and trains taken
from a panoramic camera located at the rear of the vehicle as
taught by Lee in order to aid in the investigation of a disaster
as also taught by Lee because boats and trains are subject to
disasters in the same manner that airplanes are. In other words,
a panoramic camera located at the rear of a vehicle as taught by
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