Timeline for Prior art for using a camera in self-driving cars

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Sep 21, 2012 at 6:23	comment	added	anonymous		Your understanding is completely incorrect. Claims are invalidated on a claim-by-claim basis; one bad claim doesn't invalidate the entire patent. All you need is one non-obvious limitation in one claim and you can keep the patent (though you'll lose any claims that don't contain the non-obvious limitation, either directly or incorporated via dependency).
Sep 20, 2012 at 15:31	comment	added	geeksweep		it is my understanding that every element must be non-obvious or inventive as a whole and not in part. In other words if 1 claim out of 10 cannot be patented then the whole patent is invalidated. I am pretty sure that "an image taking section for taking an image of a road surface which is travelled upon and is in front of the vehicle" has been done before. Therefore I am not sure how this was even granted. Like someone else said this was filed in 2009 and in 2007 there were many cars that used this in the Darpa challenge.
Sep 20, 2012 at 14:40	comment	added	hairboat		This is a good note and you've given great information, but it doesn't really answer my question. I think your efforts to disseminate this information would be much more productive if you posted a new discussion on Ask Patents Meta - please consider doing so!
Sep 19, 2012 at 16:16	history	answered	user96	CC BY-SA 3.0