Appeal 2007-2644
Application 10/708,681
an object detection system generating an object detection
signal and an object distance signal; and
a controller coupled to the object detection system, said
controller programmed to generate a brake-steer signal
proportional to the object distance signal in response to the
object detection signal and the object distance signal and
control the vehicle in response to the brake-steer signal.
THE REFERENCE
Matsuno US 2001/0020217 A1 Sep. 6, 2001
THE REJECTION
Claims 1-30 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as anticipated by
Matsuno.
OPINION
We affirm the aforementioned rejection.
The Appellants present a substantive argument only with respect to
claim 1 (Br. 3). Regarding claims 2-30 the Appellants merely refer to their
arguments set forth with respect to claim 1 (Br. 4). For that reason and
because all of the independent claims (1, 8, 20 and 27) include the argued
patentable distinction, we limit our discussion to claim 1. See
37 C.F.R. § 41.37(c)(1)(vii)(2004).
Matsuno discloses a vehicle motion control system that automatically
brakes the vehicle based on the distance between the vehicle and an obstacle,
the vehicle speed and a road gradient (abstract). When the motion control
system’s braking distance judging section judges that, with the deceleration
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