Ex parte DONAHUE et al. - Page 6




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




          used, in combination with a frame buffer 90 and various                     
          control arrangements for selecting which portion of the actual              
          record the viewer wishes to consider.  Such variation can be                
          imparted to the system by the joystick control 92, or the use               
          of the video glasses 99 which are responsive to the head                    
          movement of the user.                                                       
                    Lewis discloses a helmet display device which                     
          comprises a flux gate compass as a position-orientation sensor              
          for sensing the direction that the user is looking.                         
                                       Opinion                                        
                    We are of the opinion that the rejections should not              
          be sustained.                                                               
                    The examiner recognizes that Smith discloses but one              
          frame buffer (memory) for storing a sequence of frames, and                 





          admits that Smith does not teach circuitry for storing a                    
          second portion of a sequence of frames in a second memory.                  

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