Ex parte DONAHUE et al. - Page 3




                Appeal No. 96-3637                                                                                                         
                Application No. 08/248,123                                                                                                 




                                circuitry for reading, from said second memory, said stored second portion of said                         
                sequence of frames from said prerecorded source of frames in accordance with said second directional                       
                signal indicative of said second direction that said user had been facing; and                                             

                                a display coupled to said second memory for displaying said stored second portion of                       
                said sequence of frames.                                                                                                   


                                The references relied upon by the examiner as evidence of obviousness are:                                 

                Smith                      4,985,762                Jan. 15, 1991                                                          
                Lewis et al. (Lewis)       5,177,872                Jan. 12, 1993                                                          

                                Claims 1-5, 8-12 and 15 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. ' 103 as being                                      
                unpatentable over Smith.                                                                                                   
                                Claims 6, 7, 13 and 14 stand rejected under 35                                                             
                U.S.C.                                                                                                                     
                ' 103 as being unpatentable over Smith in view of Lewis.                                                                   
                                The respective positions of the examiner and the                                                           
                appellants with regard to the propriety of these rejections                                                                
                are set forth in the final rejection (Paper No. 4) and the                                                                 
                examiner=s answer (Paper No. 10) and the appellants= brief                                                                 
                (Paper No. 9) and reply brief (Paper No. 12).                                                                              




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