Appeal No. 96-0196
Application 08/158,337
This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134
from the examiner's rejection of claims 2-21, which constitute
all the claims remaining in the application.
The invention pertains to a hand-held portable
electronic device with a manually controllable cursor. The
device has a small real image of a complete frame of
alphagraphics and an enlarged virtual image which is viewed by
the operator. A manual control mounted on the hand-held
device allows control of the cursor in the virtual image.
Representative claim 2 is reproduced as follows:
2. Portable electronics equipment with manually
controllable cursor comprising:
a hand held electronic device;
a virtual display including display electronics having a
two-dimensional array of pixels providing a small real image
of a complete frame of alphagraphics and magnifying optics for
providing a magnified perceivable virtual image of the
complete frame of alphagraphics in the virtual display, the
virtual display being mounted in the hand held electronic
device for viewing of the magnified perceivable virtual image
by an operator;
cursor electronics mounted in the hand held electronic
device and connected to the display electronics for producing
a manually controllable cursor virtual image in the virtual
display; and
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