Appeal No. 2006-2850
Application No. 10/812,027
detachable unit is that the position and inclination of the gyro must be
maintained constant. See column 1, lines 50-55. Kamiya is silent as to why
the Global Positioning System (GPS) sensors are not mounted in the
detachable unit. Kamiya discusses using the entertainment functions of the
detachable unit outside of the vehicle, but not the navigation functions, thus
suggesting that they are not needed and mounting them to the vehicle
reduces the size/weight of the detachable unit.
We find that Kodama teaches a method of mounting navigation
sensors to a vehicle.1 Kodama discusses moving the navigation sensors,
from one vehicle to another. See paragraph 0006. Kodama teaches a
system which makes use of a sensor mounting base, item 13 in figure 1, to
which a GPS antenna and a self contained navigation sensor unit are
mounted. See paragraph 0009. The self contained navigation sensor
contains a direction sensor and an acceleration sensor (i.e. inertial navigation
sensor). See paragraph 0011. Kodama teaches that a navigation device body
is connected to the sensors via shielded line 14. See figures 1, 2 and
paragraph 0017. Kodama also teaches that he navigation device body
contains the GPS receiver (item 22), processor (item 23), storage medium
with map data (item 25), and a display (item 26). See paragraph 0012 and
1 We note that in the Reply Brief, Appellant discusses the Examiner’s
reliance on a machine translation of the Kodama reference. In response to
the Reply Brief, on July, 21, 2005 the Examiner made of record a translation
provided by Schreiber Translations, Inc. It is this translation upon which our
decision relies.
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