We find on this record that combining Takahashi’s reference values with the Kato’s headlight optical axis control system would result in an obvious “combination of familiar elements according to known methods ... [that] does no more than yield predictable results.” See KSR, 550 U.S. at 416.
Petitioner additionally argues that a person of ordinary skill in the art would have had reason to modify the combination of Kato and Takahashi discussed above, to include a sensor that detects the rate of change of steering angle of a vehicle, and actuators that include servo motors, because such a person would have realized that detecting the rate of change in the steering angle of a vehicle could have been used to reduce time delay in a headlight control system.
We also find on this record that a person of ordinary skill in the art would have had reason to combine Ishikawa’s gyroscopic sensor with the Kato/Takahashi system discussed above because data indicating the rate of change of vehicle pitch could be used by a controller to rapidly adjust the position of a headlight.
We find on this record that Panter’s system includes a calibration mode in which “a directional orientation at which a beam of light projects is capable of being adjusted relative to the vehicle by manual operation,” as recited in claim 22.
mounted to a bumper described in the “Example” section of the disclosure (see, e.g., Ex. 1012, 2:5–9, 2:12–13, 2:37–3:4), and Mr. Katona does not provide an adequate explanation of why the rate of change of steering angle could not be calculated from a sensor attached to motorcycle handlebars (see Ex. 2002 ¶ 65).