Appeal 2007-1916
Application 10/753,113
3. Hollis discloses “a microphone located in the bottom of the electronics
enclosure and just above the dog's chest area is used in detecting barking
vibrations through the chest cavity.” (Hollis, col. 2, ll. 24-27). Hollis
further describes that “[t]he microphone 14 picks up noise from dog's 12
chest cavity and is used to sense vocalization, such as, for example,
barking.” (Hollis, col. 3, ll. 59-62).
4. Hollis describes an accelerometer that provides monitoring of animal
body movement and provides input to microprocessor 51 (Hollis, col. 6,
ll. 45-46). “The dual axes accelerometer 50 provides digital signals to
microprocessor 51 proportional to vertical and horizontal orientation, and
dynamic movement” (Hollis, col. 5, ll. 14-17). Hollis provides no
disclosure of the accelerometer producing a neck motion detection signal
in response to “characteristic neck movement of the dog that
characteristically accompanies barking by the dog.”
5. Hollis does not teach a controller or control circuitry that produces
aversive stimulus control signals in response to the combination of a neck
motion detection signal and signals from a vibration sensor. Hollis
discloses using the vibration sensor alone to detect barking and the
accelerometer alone to detect jumping or digging (Hollis, col. 2, ll. 22-
27). It does not teach using the two signals in combination to determine
whether a valid bark has occurred and aversive stimulus should be
applied.
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