Appeal No. 2006-1373
Application No. 09/814,054
was not remedied by the Ohmura3 reference despite its teaching of providing to the driver
only the necessary information without offering any excessive amount of information. We
agree with Appellant that the combination of Asano and Ohmura does not satisfy the
claimed limitation of displaying only the present position of the vehicle and the selected
destination without showing any routing path interconnecting them.
It is our view, after consideration of the record before us, that the evidence relied
upon and the level of skill in the particular art would have not suggested to one of ordinary
skill in the art the invention as set forth in claims 51, 52, 55-65, 67 and 68. Accordingly,
we will not sustain the Examiner’s rejection of claims 51, 52, 55-65, 67 and 68.
II. Under 35 USC 103, is the Rejection of Claims 53, 54 and 66 as Being
Unpatentable over the combination of Asano, Ohmura and Kubon Proper?
With respect to dependent claims 53, 54 and 66, Appellant argues at page 10 of the
Appeal Brief that the Asano-Ohmura-Kubon combination does not teach the claimed two-
phase system, wherein the first phase entails displaying only two markings indicative of the
present location of the vehicle and the selected destination while the second phase entails
identifying individual buildings and landmarks at the destination.
We find that Kubon is concerned with converting a composite video signal into a
form suitable for a bar code decoder to detect the companion bar code within a composite
video signal. The Kubon reference is particularly relied upon for its teaching of a bar code
detector to identify road signs on the vehicle’s path. See figure 16. The Kubon reference,
however, fails to cure the deficiencies of the Asano-Ohmura combination, as noted above
3 This reference is relied upon for its teaching of Heads-up Display, whereby route information is displayed
on the windshield of the vehicle, as depicted in figure 1.
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