Appeal 2007-1290
Application 09/861,548
[0001]. Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it reads as
follows:
1. A rendering device for generating a display image for drive
assistance, said device comprising:
a reception part for receiving, from an image capture device of a
vehicle, a surrounding image, which covers an area around the vehicle;
a storing part for storing indicator images, which are different from
each other in size;
a counting part;
a selecting part for selecting, based on a counter value of said
counting part, one of the indicator images stored in said storing part, and
a first image overlay part for overlaying the indicator image selected
by said selecting part on any one of predetermined points, which are
different from each other in position in the surrounding image received by
said reception part, to provide a generation of the display image that
indicates which portion of the area surrounding the vehicle is represented by
the surrounding image with reference to the vehicle,
wherein said counting part counts a number of generations of the
display image provided by said first image overlay part.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the Examiner in
rejecting the appealed claims are:
Yamamoto US 6,476,855 B1 Nov. 05, 2002
(filed May 25, 1999)
Verbinski US 6,507,025 B1 Jan. 14, 2003
(filed Sep. 17, 1999)
Claims 1 through 9 and 13 through 15 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Yamamoto in view of Verbinski.
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