Appeal No. 96-1647
Application No. 08/149,026
(column 11, lines 18 through 20), and "[w]hen the desired image
has been digitized and fed back for display to the user, the user
can provide an input stimulus, either from the keyboard or via
the switch 105, to cause the storage in the memory of the
apparatus 1000 of the visual image of the user" (column 11, lines
27 through 31). Sitrick then concludes that:
The user created visual display, either of the
user or of the user created visual imagery, can then
represent that user in the video game audiovisual
presentation, either for the stand-alone game, or for a
multiuser video game. Thus, the user can create his or
her own spacecraft, race car, or other preselected
character functions . . . which can then be
incorporated into the overall video game audiovisual
presentation in combination with a predefined set of
complimentary audiovisual imagery segments according to
a predefined set of game rules. (Column 11, lines 41
through 51).
Sitrick’s claim 1 comprises inter alia "means for creating a user
video image responsive to the user input apparatus including
means for storing said user video image in a memory," and "means
for associating said user video image with said preselected
character imagery segment such that said user video image is
incorporated into said audiovisual presentation of said video
game." Sitrick’s claim 10 comprises "means for communicating the
user video image to a remotely located video game system for
incorporation into the audiovisual presentation of said remotely
located video game system," and Sitrick’s claim 11 adds the
limitation that "the video game and remotely located video game
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