Appeal No. 95-4152
Application 08/042,044
The specific claim limitation at issue is "first mounting
means for mounting said camera to said head-protective helmet
generally underneath said brim to protect said camera from
falling objects striking said helmet and to cause said camera
to reside in said envelope of reduced heat to reduce the
influence of said heated environment on said camera." In our
opinion, this limitation would have been suggested to one of
ordinary skill in the fire fighting and head mounted
camera/display art by the teachings of Hanson as a whole.
First, regarding the location of the camera under the brim.
Figure 9 teaches a face frame 94 (somewhat like a diver's
mask) including an outwardly extending shell 96 which houses
and protects the night vision equipment 90 and video
display 88 (col. 8, lines 1-11). It was taught in Hanson to
replace the night vision equipment with a thermal or infrared
sensitive unit (col. 2, lines 13-17; col. 9, lines 1-2). The
camera equipment 90 is considered to be mounted "generally
underneath said brim" because it appears to have the same
relationship to the user's eye and the helmet brim as the
display 104 shown in figure 11; note that the examiner states
that "figure 9 discloses night vision camera 90 approximately
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