Appeal No. 95-4152
Application 08/042,044
figure 9 of Hanson are mounted to a face frame 94 which
attaches to the head by a strap 98 underneath the helmet,
rather than to the helmet directly. In our opinion, one
skilled in the art would have appreciated from the other
teachings in Hanson that an alternative means of attaching the
face frame to the head would have been to mount it to the
helmet, for example, using a strap fixed to the helmet as
shown in figure 2, a pivotable band as shown in figures 6 and
12, or to headgear as shown in figures 10 and 11. Also, it is
noted that mounting "to said helmet" does not require mounting
to the hard outer shell of the helmet. Dependent claim 3
recites that the camera and display are mounted on an inner
deformable cap which is separable from the outer shell of the
helmet. The strap and headgear for mounting the camera and
display in Hanson might, therefore, be broadly construed to be
part of the helmet because they are closely associated with
the helmet in much the same way as appellants' removable inner
cap is associated with the rigid outer cap. For these
reasons, we conclude that mounting the camera and display to
the helmet in Hanson would have been obvious.
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