Ex parte MAGUIRE - Page 2




                 Appeal No. 1999-2698                                                                                                                   
                 Application 08/560,108                                                                                                                 


                 present application.  Claims 12 and 14 have been canceled.                                                                             
                 Dependent claim 22  has not been addressed by the Examiner or3                                                                                                     
                 Appellant after its entry, and, as it has not been rejected it                                                                         
                 is not before us.                                                                                                                      
                          The invention relates to a system and method for                                                                              
                 providing images of real and virtual objects in a head mounted                                                                         
                 display (specification, page 1, lines 1-2).  A pair of cameras                                                                         
                 (figure 1, item numbered 10) are mounted on a viewer's head                                                                            
                 (figure 1, item numbered 12) to provide video signals on a                                                                             
                 line (figure 1, item numbered 14) to a computer and image                                                                              
                 processor (figure 1, item numbered 16).  The video signals                                                                             
                 contain image information relating to real objects imaged by                                                                           
                 the cameras (specification, page 5, line 30 through page 6,                                                                            
                 line 2).                                                                                                                               
                          The computer and image processor have stored a computer                                                                       
                 model of an object space, which may be a room in a house, and                                                                          
                 the model may include furniture fixed at various points within                                                                         
                 the room (specification, page 6, lines 3-7).  Viewer monitors                                                                          


                 "plurality" the word "of" is missing.                                                                                                  
                          3Submitted by Appellant in paper No. 25, Amendment D.                                                                         
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